chore(android): update companion apk download

The dashboard's three-finger hold now opens the menu overlay in place
instead of jumping to the remote screen; the hub's Remote and Keyboard
cards do the navigating (Keyboard lands directly in keyboard mode via a
nav arg). The dashboard host carries the full Nodes page — add, edit,
remove and QR pairing — and Mesh Party.

Also: the panel scales to 92% of screen height instead of a fixed 560dp
cap so pages fit without scrolling; the FIPS sub-page no longer repeats
the FIPS Mesh header inside the detail card; the safe-area injection
fires an archy-insets event the web UI listens for (update-install
status-bar fix, other half in neode-ui).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Android/app/build.gradle.kts

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ android {
         applicationId = "com.archipelago.app"
         minSdk = 26
         targetSdk = 35
-        versionCode = 38
-        versionName = "0.5.18"
+        versionCode = 45
+        versionName = "0.5.25"
 
         vectorDrawables {
             useSupportLibrary = true

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/fips/ArchyVpnService.kt

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ import android.app.NotificationChannel
 import android.app.NotificationManager
 import android.app.PendingIntent
 import android.content.Intent
+import android.net.ConnectivityManager
+import android.net.Network
+import android.net.NetworkCapabilities
+import android.net.NetworkRequest
 import android.net.VpnService
 import android.os.Build
 import android.util.Log
@@ -34,6 +38,20 @@ class ArchyVpnService : VpnService() {
     private val scope = CoroutineScope(SupervisorJob() + Dispatchers.IO)
     private var warmerJob: Job? = null
 
+    // Seamless transport handoff (Wi-Fi ⇄ 5G ⇄ future BLE). Without this the
+    // tunnel's underlying network stays pinned to the interface that was
+    // default when the VPN came up; when the phone leaves Wi-Fi for 5G the
+    // mesh sockets ride a dead network and sessions never recover until the
+    // app is restarted (user-reported 2026-07-27). The callback (a) re-pins
+    // the tunnel to the new default network via setUnderlyingNetworks and
+    // (b) forces an immediate mesh re-home so discovery + sessions rebuild
+    // on the new path within seconds instead of waiting out dead-link
+    // timeouts.
+    private var connectivityManager: ConnectivityManager? = null
+    private var networkCallback: ConnectivityManager.NetworkCallback? = null
+    @Volatile
+    private var currentUnderlying: Network? = null
+
     override fun onStartCommand(intent: Intent?, flags: Int, startId: Int): Int {
         if (intent?.action == ACTION_STOP) {
             shutdown()
@@ -113,6 +131,7 @@ class ArchyVpnService : VpnService() {
             shutdown()
         } else {
             startSessionWarmer()
+            registerNetworkHandoff()
             // Phone-to-phone chat/beam + the phone's own mesh-served page.
             FlareServer.start(this, identity.address, identity.npub, prefs.partyName())
             // Mutual pairing: when a phone that scanned OUR QR announces
@@ -153,19 +172,28 @@ class ArchyVpnService : VpnService() {
                 } catch (_: Exception) {
                     emptyList()
                 }.distinct()
-                for ((ula, port) in targets) {
-                    try {
-                        java.net.Socket().use { s ->
-                            s.connect(
-                                java.net.InetSocketAddress(java.net.InetAddress.getByName(ula), port),
-                                20_000,
-                            )
+                if (round == 0) Log.i(TAG, "session warmer: ${targets.map { it.first }}")
+                // Probe all targets CONCURRENTLY with a short timeout — the
+                // old sequential 20s-per-target loop let one cold node starve
+                // every other target for the whole aggressive window.
+                targets.map { (ula, port) ->
+                    launch {
+                        try {
+                            java.net.Socket().use { s ->
+                                s.connect(
+                                    java.net.InetSocketAddress(
+                                        java.net.InetAddress.getByName(ula),
+                                        port,
+                                    ),
+                                    5_000,
+                                )
+                            }
+                        } catch (_: Exception) {
+                            // Cold path / node away — the attempt still drove
+                            // session establishment; try again next round.
                         }
-                    } catch (_: Exception) {
-                        // Cold path / node away — the connect attempt still
-                        // drove session establishment; try again next round.
                     }
-                }
+                }.forEach { it.join() }
                 round++
                 // Aggressive for the first ~minute (session bring-up), then a
                 // slow keep-warm tick that costs nearly nothing.
@@ -174,8 +202,75 @@ class ArchyVpnService : VpnService() {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Track the phone's default network and hand the mesh over to it as the
+     * phone roams (Wi-Fi ⇄ 5G, and later BLE). Two actions per change:
+     *  1. setUnderlyingNetworks(new) — the tunnel's packets follow the live
+     *     network instead of dying on the one it launched with.
+     *  2. re-home the mesh — kick the session warmer so discovery + sessions
+     *     rebuild on the new path immediately; the node's own fast-reconnect
+     *     (1s) redials peers over the new route.
+     * onAvailable also fires for the FIRST network, which is how the initial
+     * underlying network gets set.
+     */
+    private fun registerNetworkHandoff() {
+        if (networkCallback != null) return
+        val cm = getSystemService(ConnectivityManager::class.java) ?: return
+        connectivityManager = cm
+        val request = NetworkRequest.Builder()
+            .addCapability(NetworkCapabilities.NET_CAPABILITY_INTERNET)
+            .build()
+        val cb = object : ConnectivityManager.NetworkCallback() {
+            override fun onAvailable(network: Network) {
+                handoffTo(network)
+            }
+
+            override fun onLost(network: Network) {
+                // The lost network was our underlying one — clear the pin so
+                // the system falls back to whatever default remains; the next
+                // onAvailable re-pins explicitly.
+                if (network == currentUnderlying) {
+                    currentUnderlying = null
+                    runCatching { setUnderlyingNetworks(null) }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        networkCallback = cb
+        // requestNetwork tracks the BEST network of the request; when the
+        // phone moves Wi-Fi→5G the callback re-fires onAvailable with the new
+        // one. (registerDefaultNetworkCallback would also work; requestNetwork
+        // lets us extend to BLE-capable transports later.)
+        runCatching { cm.requestNetwork(request, cb) }
+    }
+
+    private fun handoffTo(network: Network) {
+        val changed = network != currentUnderlying
+        currentUnderlying = network
+        // Always re-assert; cheap and covers capability changes on the same
+        // Network object.
+        runCatching { setUnderlyingNetworks(arrayOf(network)) }
+        if (changed && FipsNative.isRunning()) {
+            Log.i(TAG, "network handoff → re-homing mesh on new default network")
+            // Fresh warmer pass drives immediate rediscovery/session rebuild
+            // on the new path instead of waiting out dead-link timeouts.
+            startSessionWarmer()
+        }
+    }
+
+    private fun unregisterNetworkHandoff() {
+        val cm = connectivityManager
+        val cb = networkCallback
+        if (cm != null && cb != null) {
+            runCatching { cm.unregisterNetworkCallback(cb) }
+        }
+        networkCallback = null
+        connectivityManager = null
+        currentUnderlying = null
+    }
+
     private fun shutdown() {
         warmerJob?.cancel()
+        unregisterNetworkHandoff()
         FlareServer.stop()
         FipsNative.stop()
         stopForeground(STOP_FOREGROUND_REMOVE)
@@ -183,6 +278,7 @@ class ArchyVpnService : VpnService() {
     }
 
     override fun onDestroy() {
+        unregisterNetworkHandoff()
         FipsNative.stop()
         scope.cancel()
         super.onDestroy()

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/fips/FipsManager.kt

@@ -41,7 +41,15 @@ object FipsManager {
         ensureIdentity(prefs)
         prefs.upsertNodePeer(info, alias)
         peersDirty = true
-        _consentNeeded.value = true
+        // Restart the mesh with the new peer RIGHT NOW when consent already
+        // exists — relying on the consentNeeded collector left a running
+        // mesh on the OLD peer list whenever the collector wasn't active
+        // (fresh pairings looked dead until a full app restart).
+        if (VpnService.prepare(context) == null) {
+            startService(context)
+        } else {
+            _consentNeeded.value = true
+        }
     }
 
     /** Generate-once mesh identity. Returns null only if the RNG/native fails. */

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/ui/components/NESController.kt

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.CircleShape
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.RoundedCornerShape
 import androidx.compose.material.icons.Icons
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Palette
 import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Settings
 import androidx.compose.material3.Icon
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ fun NESController(
     onKey: (String) -> Unit,
     onMenu: () -> Unit,
     onPlayerToggle: () -> Unit = {},
+    onToggleStyle: (() -> Unit)? = null,
     modifier: Modifier = Modifier,
 ) {
     val c = paletteFor(style)
@@ -205,6 +207,7 @@ fun NESController(
                 ) {
                     PlayerPill(c, playerId, onPlayerToggle)
                     SettingsBtn(c, Modifier, onMenu)
+                    onToggleStyle?.let { StyleBtn(c, Modifier, it) }
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -431,6 +434,23 @@ fun SettingsBtn(c: NESPalette, modifier: Modifier = Modifier, onClick: () -> Uni
     }
 }
 
+/** Dark/Classic style toggle — lives next to the settings gear (the menu hub
+ *  no longer carries it). */
+@Composable
+fun StyleBtn(c: NESPalette, modifier: Modifier = Modifier, onClick: () -> Unit) {
+    var p by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    Box(
+        modifier = modifier
+            .size(48.dp)
+            .clip(CircleShape)
+            .background(if (p) c.capsulePress else c.capsule)
+            .pointerInput(Unit) { detectTapGestures(onPress = { p = true; onClick(); tryAwaitRelease(); p = false }) },
+        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+    ) {
+        Icon(Icons.Default.Palette, "Controller style", Modifier.size(26.dp), tint = c.labelMuted)
+    }
+}
+
 /** Player ID toggle pill (P1/P2/ALL) */
 @Composable
 fun PlayerPill(c: NESPalette, playerId: Int, onToggle: () -> Unit) {

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/ui/components/NESMenu.kt

@@ -21,20 +21,40 @@ import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.padding
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.size
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.width
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.widthIn
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.statusBarsPadding
+import androidx.compose.foundation.rememberScrollState
+import androidx.compose.foundation.verticalScroll
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.automirrored.filled.ArrowBack
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Bolt
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Dashboard
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Dns
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Groups
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Keyboard
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.SportsEsports
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.heightIn
 import androidx.compose.foundation.shape.RoundedCornerShape
 import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardActions
 import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardOptions
 import androidx.compose.material.icons.Icons
+import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.Close
 import androidx.compose.material.icons.filled.QrCodeScanner
 import androidx.compose.material3.Icon
 import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedTextField
 import androidx.compose.material3.OutlinedTextFieldDefaults
 import androidx.compose.material3.Text
 import androidx.compose.runtime.Composable
+import androidx.compose.runtime.LaunchedEffect
 import androidx.compose.runtime.getValue
 import androidx.compose.runtime.mutableStateOf
 import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
+import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalClipboardManager
+import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalConfiguration
+import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext
+import androidx.compose.ui.text.AnnotatedString
+import com.archipelago.app.fips.FipsManager
+import com.archipelago.app.fips.FipsNative
+import com.archipelago.app.fips.FipsPreferences
 import androidx.compose.ui.Alignment
 import androidx.compose.ui.Modifier
 import androidx.compose.ui.draw.clip
@@ -51,7 +71,6 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.unit.sp
 import com.archipelago.app.R
 import com.archipelago.app.data.ServerEntry
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.BitcoinOrange
-import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.ControllerStyle
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.SurfaceDark
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.TextMuted
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.TextPrimary
@@ -75,27 +94,29 @@ fun NESMenu(
     visible: Boolean,
     servers: List<ServerEntry>,
     activeServer: ServerEntry?,
-    isGamepadMode: Boolean,
-    controllerStyle: ControllerStyle,
     onDismiss: () -> Unit,
     onSelectServer: (ServerEntry) -> Unit,
     onAddServer: (ServerEntry) -> Unit,
     onScanQr: (() -> Unit)? = null,
     onEditServer: (ServerEntry, ServerEntry) -> Unit,
     onRemoveServer: (ServerEntry) -> Unit,
-    onToggleMode: () -> Unit,
-    onToggleStyle: () -> Unit,
+    onRemote: () -> Unit,
+    onKeyboard: () -> Unit,
     onBackToWebView: (() -> Unit)? = null,
     onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null,
 ) {
     AnimatedVisibility(visible = visible, enter = fadeIn(), exit = fadeOut()) {
+        // Contained hub overlay: a centred glass panel (not full-screen) that
+        // holds the card page and its sub-pages (Nodes, FIPS) and scrolls
+        // inside its own bounds when content is tall. Tapping the dimmed
+        // backdrop dismisses.
         Box(
             Modifier.fillMaxSize().background(Color.Black.copy(alpha = 0.7f))
                 .clickable(indication = null, interactionSource = remember { MutableInteractionSource() }) { onDismiss() },
             contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
         ) {
             AnimatedVisibility(visible = visible, enter = fadeIn() + scaleIn(initialScale = 0.95f), exit = fadeOut() + scaleOut(targetScale = 0.95f)) {
-                MenuPanel(servers, activeServer, isGamepadMode, controllerStyle, onDismiss, onSelectServer, onAddServer, onScanQr, onEditServer, onRemoveServer, onToggleMode, onToggleStyle, onBackToWebView, onMeshParty)
+                MenuPanel(servers, activeServer, onDismiss, onSelectServer, onAddServer, onScanQr, onEditServer, onRemoveServer, onRemote, onKeyboard, onBackToWebView, onMeshParty)
             }
         }
     }
@@ -105,16 +126,14 @@ fun NESMenu(
 private fun MenuPanel(
     servers: List<ServerEntry>,
     activeServer: ServerEntry?,
-    isGamepadMode: Boolean,
-    controllerStyle: ControllerStyle,
     onDismiss: () -> Unit,
     onSelectServer: (ServerEntry) -> Unit,
     onAddServer: (ServerEntry) -> Unit,
     onScanQr: (() -> Unit)?,
     onEditServer: (ServerEntry, ServerEntry) -> Unit,
     onRemoveServer: (ServerEntry) -> Unit,
-    onToggleMode: () -> Unit,
-    onToggleStyle: () -> Unit,
+    onRemote: () -> Unit,
+    onKeyboard: () -> Unit,
     onBackToWebView: (() -> Unit)?,
     onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)?,
 ) {
@@ -124,14 +143,15 @@ private fun MenuPanel(
     var nm by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
     var addr by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
     var pwd by remember { mutableStateOf("") }
+    var https by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
 
     fun resetForm() {
-        nm = ""; addr = ""; pwd = ""; showAdd = false; editing = null
+        nm = ""; addr = ""; pwd = ""; https = false; showAdd = false; editing = null
     }
 
     fun startEdit(server: ServerEntry) {
         editing = server
-        nm = server.name; addr = server.address; pwd = server.password
+        nm = server.name; addr = server.address; pwd = server.password; https = server.useHttps
         showAdd = false
     }
 
@@ -139,161 +159,381 @@ private fun MenuPanel(
         if (addr.isBlank()) return
         val orig = editing
         if (orig != null) {
-            // Preserve fields the compact form doesn't expose (scheme, port).
-            onEditServer(orig, orig.copy(address = addr, password = pwd, name = nm))
+            // Preserve port (compact form doesn't expose it); scheme is now editable.
+            onEditServer(orig, orig.copy(address = addr, useHttps = https, password = pwd, name = nm))
         } else {
-            onAddServer(ServerEntry(addr, false, password = pwd, name = nm))
+            onAddServer(ServerEntry(addr, https, password = pwd, name = nm))
         }
         resetForm()
     }
 
+    var page by remember { mutableStateOf(HubPage.HUB) }
+
     Column(
         modifier = Modifier
             .widthIn(max = 420.dp)
+            .fillMaxWidth()
             .padding(horizontal = 20.dp)
+            // Cap height just short of the full screen; the panel wraps short
+            // content and only scrolls in the rare case it outgrows this.
+            .heightIn(max = (LocalConfiguration.current.screenHeightDp * 0.92f).dp)
             .clip(RoundedCornerShape(PANEL_R))
-            .background(PanelBg)
+            .background(PanelBg.copy(alpha = 0.86f))
             .border(1.dp, PanelBorder, RoundedCornerShape(PANEL_R))
             .clickable(indication = null, interactionSource = remember { MutableInteractionSource() }) {}
-            .padding(22.dp),
-        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(10.dp),
+            .verticalScroll(rememberScrollState())
+            .padding(20.dp),
+        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(12.dp),
     ) {
-        // Title
-        Text(
-            "Menu",
-            color = TextPrimary,
-            fontSize = 18.sp,
-            fontWeight = FontWeight.SemiBold,
-            letterSpacing = 2.sp,
-            modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
-            textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
-        )
-        Spacer(Modifier.height(2.dp))
-
-        // Servers
-        servers.forEach { server ->
-            val active = server.serialize() == activeServer?.serialize()
-            MenuItem(
-                label = server.displayName(),
-                selected = active,
-                onClick = { onSelectServer(server) },
-                onEdit = { startEdit(server) },
-                onRemove = { onRemoveServer(server) },
-            )
-        }
-
-        if (servers.isEmpty()) {
-            Text("No servers", color = TextMuted, fontSize = 14.sp, modifier = Modifier.padding(vertical = 4.dp))
-        }
-
-        // Add / edit server
-        if (showAdd || editing != null) {
-            Column(
-                Modifier
-                    .fillMaxWidth()
-                    .clip(RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
-                    .background(FieldBg)
-                    .border(1.dp, RowBorder, RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
-                    .padding(12.dp),
-                verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
-            ) {
-                Row(
-                    Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
-                    verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
-                    horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.SpaceBetween,
-                ) {
+        // Header: back (on sub-pages) or title, and a close on the hub.
+        Row(
+            Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+            verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+            horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.SpaceBetween,
+        ) {
+            if (page == HubPage.HUB) {
+                Text("Menu", color = TextPrimary, fontSize = 20.sp, fontWeight = FontWeight.SemiBold, letterSpacing = 2.sp)
+                IconRound(Icons.Default.Close, "Close") { onDismiss() }
+            } else {
+                Row(verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
+                    IconRound(Icons.AutoMirrored.Filled.ArrowBack, "Back") { resetForm(); page = HubPage.HUB }
+                    Spacer(Modifier.width(12.dp))
                     Text(
-                        if (editing != null) "Edit Server" else "Add Server",
-                        color = TextMuted,
-                        fontSize = 13.sp,
-                        letterSpacing = 1.sp,
-                        fontWeight = FontWeight.Medium,
-                    )
-                    Text(
-                        "Cancel",
-                        color = TextMuted,
-                        fontSize = 13.sp,
-                        modifier = Modifier.clickable { resetForm() }.padding(start = 8.dp),
+                        if (page == HubPage.NODES) "Nodes" else "FIPS Mesh",
+                        color = TextPrimary, fontSize = 20.sp, fontWeight = FontWeight.SemiBold, letterSpacing = 1.sp,
                     )
                 }
-                GlassField(
-                    value = nm, onValueChange = { nm = it },
-                    placeholder = "Name (optional)",
-                    keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Text, imeAction = ImeAction.Next),
-                )
-                GlassField(
-                    value = addr, onValueChange = { addr = it.trim() },
-                    placeholder = "192.168.1.100",
-                    keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Uri, imeAction = ImeAction.Next),
-                )
-                Row(horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp), verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
-                    GlassField(
-                        value = pwd, onValueChange = { pwd = it },
-                        placeholder = "Password",
-                        modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
-                        visualTransformation = PasswordVisualTransformation(),
-                        keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Password, imeAction = ImeAction.Go),
-                        keyboardActions = KeyboardActions(onGo = { submit() }),
-                    )
-                    Box(
-                        Modifier.size(FIELD_H).clip(RoundedCornerShape(12.dp)).background(BitcoinOrange.copy(alpha = 0.15f))
-                            .border(1.dp, BitcoinOrange.copy(alpha = 0.4f), RoundedCornerShape(12.dp))
-                            .clickable { submit() },
-                        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
-                    ) { Text("OK", color = BitcoinOrange, fontSize = 14.sp, fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold) }
-                }
+                IconRound(Icons.Default.Close, "Close") { onDismiss() }
             }
-        } else {
-            Row(Modifier.fillMaxWidth(), horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(10.dp)) {
-                Box(Modifier.weight(1f)) {
-                    MenuItem(label = "Add Server", labelColor = BitcoinOrange, onClick = { showAdd = true })
+        }
+        Spacer(Modifier.height(4.dp))
+
+        when (page) {
+            HubPage.HUB -> {
+                // Card page — one card per destination. Dashboard first: it's a
+                // peer of the others so three-finger → hub → Dashboard returns
+                // to the node UI, same shape as every other option.
+                if (onBackToWebView != null) {
+                    HubCard(Icons.Default.Dashboard, "Dashboard", "The node's web interface") { onBackToWebView() }
                 }
-                if (onScanQr != null) {
-                    // Add server by scanning the node's pairing QR
-                    Box(
+                HubCard(Icons.Default.SportsEsports, "Remote", "Game controller for the node") { onRemote() }
+                HubCard(Icons.Default.Keyboard, "Keyboard", "Type into the node") { onKeyboard() }
+                HubCard(Icons.Default.Dns, "Nodes", activeServer?.displayName() ?: "Add or switch servers") {
+                    page = HubPage.NODES
+                }
+                if (FipsNative.available) {
+                    HubCard(Icons.Default.Bolt, "FIPS Mesh", "Mesh identity & status") { page = HubPage.FIPS }
+                }
+                if (onMeshParty != null) {
+                    HubCard(Icons.Default.Groups, "Mesh Party", "Phone-to-phone chat & beam") { onMeshParty() }
+                }
+                // Dark/Classic style lives on the remote/keyboard screen next to
+                // the settings button — not here.
+            }
+
+            HubPage.NODES -> {
+                servers.forEach { server ->
+                    val active = server.serialize() == activeServer?.serialize()
+                    MenuItem(
+                        label = server.displayName(),
+                        selected = active,
+                        onClick = { onSelectServer(server) },
+                        onEdit = { startEdit(server) },
+                        onRemove = { onRemoveServer(server) },
+                    )
+                }
+                if (servers.isEmpty()) {
+                    Text("No servers", color = TextMuted, fontSize = 14.sp, modifier = Modifier.padding(vertical = 4.dp))
+                }
+
+                if (showAdd || editing != null) {
+                    Column(
                         Modifier
-                            .size(ROW_H)
+                            .fillMaxWidth()
                             .clip(RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
-                            .background(RowBg)
+                            .background(FieldBg)
                             .border(1.dp, RowBorder, RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
-                            .clickable { onScanQr() },
-                        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+                            .padding(12.dp),
+                        verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
                     ) {
-                        Icon(
-                            Icons.Default.QrCodeScanner,
-                            contentDescription = stringResource(R.string.add_server_qr),
-                            tint = BitcoinOrange,
-                            modifier = Modifier.size(24.dp),
+                        Row(
+                            Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
+                            verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+                            horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.SpaceBetween,
+                        ) {
+                            Text(
+                                if (editing != null) "Edit Server" else "Add Server",
+                                color = TextMuted, fontSize = 13.sp, letterSpacing = 1.sp, fontWeight = FontWeight.Medium,
+                            )
+                            Text(
+                                "Cancel", color = TextMuted, fontSize = 13.sp,
+                                modifier = Modifier.clickable { resetForm() }.padding(start = 8.dp),
+                            )
+                        }
+                        GlassField(
+                            value = nm, onValueChange = { nm = it },
+                            placeholder = "Name (optional)",
+                            keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Text, imeAction = ImeAction.Next),
                         )
+                        GlassField(
+                            value = addr, onValueChange = { addr = it.trim() },
+                            placeholder = "192.168.1.100",
+                            keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Uri, imeAction = ImeAction.Next),
+                        )
+                        Row(horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp), verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {
+                            GlassField(
+                                value = pwd, onValueChange = { pwd = it },
+                                placeholder = "Password",
+                                modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
+                                visualTransformation = PasswordVisualTransformation(),
+                                keyboardOptions = KeyboardOptions(keyboardType = KeyboardType.Password, imeAction = ImeAction.Go),
+                                keyboardActions = KeyboardActions(onGo = { submit() }),
+                            )
+                            Box(
+                                Modifier.size(FIELD_H).clip(RoundedCornerShape(12.dp)).background(BitcoinOrange.copy(alpha = 0.15f))
+                                    .border(1.dp, BitcoinOrange.copy(alpha = 0.4f), RoundedCornerShape(12.dp))
+                                    .clickable { submit() },
+                                contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+                            ) { Text("OK", color = BitcoinOrange, fontSize = 14.sp, fontWeight = FontWeight.Bold) }
+                        }
+                        // HTTPS scheme toggle (available on both add and edit).
+                        Row(
+                            Modifier
+                                .fillMaxWidth()
+                                .clip(RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
+                                .clickable { https = !https }
+                                .padding(vertical = 2.dp),
+                            verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+                            horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.SpaceBetween,
+                        ) {
+                            Text("Use HTTPS", color = TextMuted, fontSize = 13.sp)
+                            Box(
+                                Modifier
+                                    .width(46.dp).height(26.dp)
+                                    .clip(RoundedCornerShape(13.dp))
+                                    .background(if (https) BitcoinOrange.copy(alpha = 0.9f) else RowBg)
+                                    .border(1.dp, if (https) BitcoinOrange else RowBorder, RoundedCornerShape(13.dp)),
+                                contentAlignment = if (https) Alignment.CenterEnd else Alignment.CenterStart,
+                            ) {
+                                Box(
+                                    Modifier
+                                        .padding(horizontal = 3.dp)
+                                        .size(20.dp)
+                                        .clip(RoundedCornerShape(10.dp))
+                                        .background(if (https) Color.White else TextMuted),
+                                )
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    Row(Modifier.fillMaxWidth(), horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(10.dp)) {
+                        Box(Modifier.weight(1f)) {
+                            MenuItem(label = "Add Server", labelColor = BitcoinOrange, onClick = { showAdd = true })
+                        }
+                        if (onScanQr != null) {
+                            Box(
+                                Modifier
+                                    .size(ROW_H)
+                                    .clip(RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
+                                    .background(RowBg)
+                                    .border(1.dp, RowBorder, RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
+                                    .clickable { onScanQr() },
+                                contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+                            ) {
+                                Icon(
+                                    Icons.Default.QrCodeScanner,
+                                    contentDescription = stringResource(R.string.add_server_qr),
+                                    tint = BitcoinOrange,
+                                    modifier = Modifier.size(24.dp),
+                                )
+                            }
+                        }
                     }
                 }
             }
+
+            HubPage.FIPS -> {
+                FipsSection(embedded = true)
+            }
         }
+    }
+}
 
-        Spacer(Modifier.height(2.dp))
-        Box(Modifier.fillMaxWidth().height(1.dp).background(PanelBorder))
-        Spacer(Modifier.height(2.dp))
+private enum class HubPage { HUB, NODES, FIPS }
 
-        // Mode toggle
-        MenuItem(
-            label = if (isGamepadMode) "Switch to Keyboard" else "Switch to Gamepad",
-            onClick = onToggleMode,
-        )
-
-        // Style toggle
-        MenuItem(
-            label = if (controllerStyle == ControllerStyle.CLASSIC) "Style: Classic" else "Style: Dark",
-            onClick = onToggleStyle,
-        )
-
-        // Phone↔phone mesh pairing + chat
-        if (onMeshParty != null) {
-            MenuItem(label = "Mesh Party", labelColor = BitcoinOrange, onClick = onMeshParty)
+/** Big tappable destination card for the hub page: icon + title + subtitle. */
+@Composable
+private fun HubCard(
+    icon: androidx.compose.ui.graphics.vector.ImageVector,
+    title: String,
+    subtitle: String,
+    onClick: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    Row(
+        Modifier
+            .fillMaxWidth()
+            .clip(RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
+            .background(RowBg)
+            .border(1.dp, RowBorder, RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
+            .clickable { onClick() }
+            .padding(16.dp),
+        verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+        horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(14.dp),
+    ) {
+        Box(
+            Modifier.size(40.dp).clip(RoundedCornerShape(12.dp)).background(BitcoinOrange.copy(alpha = 0.14f)),
+            contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+        ) {
+            Icon(icon, contentDescription = title, tint = BitcoinOrange, modifier = Modifier.size(22.dp))
         }
+        Column(Modifier.weight(1f)) {
+            Text(title, color = TextPrimary, fontSize = 16.sp, fontWeight = FontWeight.SemiBold)
+            Text(subtitle, color = TextMuted, fontSize = 12.sp, maxLines = 1)
+        }
+    }
+}
 
-        // Back to dashboard
-        if (onBackToWebView != null) {
-            MenuItem(label = "Back to Dashboard", onClick = onBackToWebView)
+/** Small circular icon button used in the hub header. */
+@Composable
+private fun IconRound(
+    icon: androidx.compose.ui.graphics.vector.ImageVector,
+    desc: String,
+    onClick: () -> Unit,
+) {
+    Box(
+        Modifier
+            .size(40.dp)
+            .clip(RoundedCornerShape(20.dp))
+            .background(RowBg)
+            .border(1.dp, RowBorder, RoundedCornerShape(20.dp))
+            .clickable { onClick() },
+        contentAlignment = Alignment.Center,
+    ) {
+        Icon(icon, contentDescription = desc, tint = TextPrimary, modifier = Modifier.size(20.dp))
+    }
+}
+
+/** Snapshot of the phone's mesh identity + state for the FIPS menu section. */
+private data class FipsInfo(
+    val available: Boolean,
+    val running: Boolean,
+    val npub: String,
+    val meshAddress: String,
+    val peerCount: Int,
+)
+
+/**
+ * FIPS mesh oversight: shows what the phone's embedded mesh node is doing —
+ * running state, its mesh identity (npub), its mesh address (fd…ULA), how
+ * many peers/anchors it's configured with — and a one-tap Reconnect that
+ * re-homes the mesh (also the manual fix if a network handoff ever misses).
+ * Collapsed by default so the menu stays compact.
+ */
+@Composable
+private fun FipsSection(embedded: Boolean = false) {
+    if (!FipsNative.available) return
+    val context = LocalContext.current
+    val clipboard = LocalClipboardManager.current
+    var expanded by remember { mutableStateOf(embedded) }
+    var info by remember { mutableStateOf<FipsInfo?>(null) }
+
+    // Load identity/state when the section opens (cheap DataStore + JSON read).
+    LaunchedEffect(expanded) {
+        if (expanded && info == null) {
+            val prefs = FipsPreferences(context)
+            val id = prefs.identity()
+            val peers = runCatching {
+                org.json.JSONArray(prefs.peersJson()).length()
+            }.getOrDefault(0)
+            info = FipsInfo(
+                available = true,
+                running = FipsNative.isRunning(),
+                npub = id?.npub.orEmpty(),
+                meshAddress = id?.address.orEmpty(),
+                peerCount = peers,
+            )
+        }
+    }
+
+    Column(Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {
+        // Embedded in the hub's FIPS sub-page the header row would duplicate
+        // the page title, so only the standalone (collapsible) form shows it.
+        if (!embedded) MenuItem(
+            label = "FIPS Mesh",
+            labelColor = BitcoinOrange,
+            onClick = { expanded = !expanded },
+        )
+        if (expanded) {
+            val i = info
+            Column(
+                Modifier
+                    .fillMaxWidth()
+                    .padding(top = 6.dp)
+                    .clip(RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
+                    .background(FieldBg)
+                    .border(1.dp, RowBorder, RoundedCornerShape(ROW_R))
+                    .padding(14.dp),
+                verticalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(10.dp),
+            ) {
+                if (i == null) {
+                    Text("Loading…", color = TextMuted, fontSize = 13.sp)
+                } else {
+                    FipsRow("Status", if (i.running) "Connected" else "Stopped",
+                        valueColor = if (i.running) BitcoinOrange else TextMuted)
+                    if (i.meshAddress.isNotBlank()) {
+                        FipsRow("Mesh address", i.meshAddress, mono = true,
+                            onCopy = { clipboard.setText(AnnotatedString(i.meshAddress)) })
+                    }
+                    if (i.npub.isNotBlank()) {
+                        FipsRow("Identity (npub)", i.npub, mono = true,
+                            onCopy = { clipboard.setText(AnnotatedString(i.npub)) })
+                    }
+                    FipsRow("Peers & anchors", i.peerCount.toString())
+                    Text(
+                        "Your node reaches this phone over the mesh by its npub — no ports opened to the internet.",
+                        color = TextMuted, fontSize = 11.sp,
+                    )
+                    MenuItem(
+                        label = "Reconnect mesh",
+                        labelColor = BitcoinOrange,
+                        onClick = {
+                            FipsManager.requestMeshRestart(context)
+                            info = null
+                            if (!embedded) expanded = false
+                        },
+                    )
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+@Composable
+private fun FipsRow(
+    label: String,
+    value: String,
+    valueColor: Color = TextPrimary,
+    mono: Boolean = false,
+    onCopy: (() -> Unit)? = null,
+) {
+    Row(
+        Modifier
+            .fillMaxWidth()
+            .then(if (onCopy != null) Modifier.clickable { onCopy() } else Modifier),
+        verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
+        horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.SpaceBetween,
+    ) {
+        Text(label, color = TextMuted, fontSize = 12.sp, modifier = Modifier.width(120.dp))
+        Text(
+            value,
+            color = valueColor,
+            fontSize = if (mono) 11.sp else 13.sp,
+            fontWeight = FontWeight.Medium,
+            modifier = Modifier.weight(1f),
+            textAlign = TextAlign.End,
+        )
+        if (onCopy != null) {
+            Text("⧉", color = TextMuted, fontSize = 13.sp, modifier = Modifier.padding(start = 8.dp))
         }
     }
 }

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/ui/components/NESPortraitController.kt

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ fun NESPortraitController(
     onMouseScroll: (Int) -> Unit = { _ -> },
     onMenu: () -> Unit,
     onPlayerToggle: () -> Unit = {},
+    onToggleStyle: (() -> Unit)? = null,
 ) {
     val c = paletteFor(style)
     val isClassic = style == ControllerStyle.CLASSIC
@@ -151,6 +152,10 @@ fun NESPortraitController(
                     PlayerPill(c, playerId, onPlayerToggle)
                     Spacer(Modifier.width(10.dp))
                     SettingsBtn(c, Modifier, onMenu)
+                    onToggleStyle?.let {
+                        Spacer(Modifier.width(10.dp))
+                        StyleBtn(c, Modifier, it)
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/ui/components/QrScannerOverlay.kt

@@ -238,6 +238,7 @@ internal fun CameraQrPreview(onDecoded: (String) -> Unit) {
         val mainExecutor = ContextCompat.getMainExecutor(context)
         val providerFuture = ProcessCameraProvider.getInstance(context)
         var provider: ProcessCameraProvider? = null
+        val focusScheduler = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor()
 
         providerFuture.addListener({
             val p = providerFuture.get()
@@ -245,12 +246,15 @@ internal fun CameraQrPreview(onDecoded: (String) -> Unit) {
             val preview = Preview.Builder().build().also {
                 it.setSurfaceProvider(previewView.surfaceProvider)
             }
-            // CameraX's analysis default is 640x480 — too few pixels per module
-            // to decode a modal-sized QR at arm's length. 1280x720 more than
-            // doubles the pixel density at negligible analysis cost.
+            // Dense Lightning-invoice QRs need BOTH enough pixels per module and
+            // sharp focus. 1280x720 + a far-focused camera (e.g. Pixel 9a's main
+            // lens, which won't focus close) left dense invoices undecodable
+            // while sparse address QRs still read — the "scanner doesn't pick up
+            // invoices" report. 1920x1080 roughly doubles module resolution so a
+            // QR held at the camera's actual focus distance still resolves.
             @Suppress("DEPRECATION")
             val analysis = ImageAnalysis.Builder()
-                .setTargetResolution(android.util.Size(1280, 720))
+                .setTargetResolution(android.util.Size(1920, 1080))
                 .setBackpressureStrategy(ImageAnalysis.STRATEGY_KEEP_ONLY_LATEST)
                 .build()
                 .also {
@@ -261,13 +265,27 @@ internal fun CameraQrPreview(onDecoded: (String) -> Unit) {
                 }
             try {
                 p.unbindAll()
-                p.bindToLifecycle(lifecycleOwner, CameraSelector.DEFAULT_BACK_CAMERA, preview, analysis)
+                val cam = p.bindToLifecycle(lifecycleOwner, CameraSelector.DEFAULT_BACK_CAMERA, preview, analysis)
+                // Force a centre autofocus on a repeating tick. A hand-held QR is
+                // a static scene, so continuous-AF often never retriggers and the
+                // lens sits at its resting (far) focus — fatal for dense codes.
+                // A normalized centre point works before the view is measured.
+                val point = androidx.camera.core.SurfaceOrientedMeteringPointFactory(1f, 1f)
+                    .createPoint(0.5f, 0.5f)
+                val focusAction = androidx.camera.core.FocusMeteringAction.Builder(
+                    point,
+                    androidx.camera.core.FocusMeteringAction.FLAG_AF,
+                ).disableAutoCancel().build()
+                focusScheduler.scheduleWithFixedDelay({
+                    runCatching { cam.cameraControl.startFocusAndMetering(focusAction) }
+                }, 0, 2, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.SECONDS)
             } catch (_: Exception) {
                 // Camera unavailable — the user can dismiss and enter details manually.
             }
         }, mainExecutor)
 
         onDispose {
+            focusScheduler.shutdownNow()
             provider?.unbindAll()
             analysisExecutor.shutdown()
         }

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/ui/navigation/NavGraph.kt

@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ import androidx.compose.runtime.remember
 import androidx.compose.runtime.rememberCoroutineScope
 import androidx.compose.runtime.setValue
 import androidx.compose.ui.platform.LocalContext
+import androidx.navigation.NavType
 import androidx.navigation.compose.NavHost
 import androidx.navigation.compose.composable
 import androidx.navigation.compose.rememberNavController
+import androidx.navigation.navArgument
 import com.archipelago.app.data.PairResult
 import com.archipelago.app.data.ServerEntry
 import com.archipelago.app.data.ServerPreferences
@@ -177,11 +179,25 @@ fun AppNavHost(
                     onRemoteInput = {
                         navController.navigate(Routes.REMOTE_INPUT)
                     },
+                    onRemoteKeyboard = {
+                        navController.navigate("${Routes.REMOTE_INPUT}?keyboard=true")
+                    },
+                    onMeshParty = {
+                        navController.navigate(Routes.MESH_PARTY)
+                    },
                 )
             }
         }
 
-        composable(Routes.REMOTE_INPUT) {
+        composable(
+            "${Routes.REMOTE_INPUT}?keyboard={keyboard}",
+            arguments = listOf(
+                navArgument("keyboard") {
+                    type = NavType.BoolType
+                    defaultValue = false
+                },
+            ),
+        ) { entry ->
             RemoteInputScreen(
                 onBack = {
                     navController.popBackStack()
@@ -189,6 +205,7 @@ fun AppNavHost(
                 onMeshParty = {
                     navController.navigate(Routes.MESH_PARTY)
                 },
+                startInKeyboard = entry.arguments?.getBoolean("keyboard") == true,
             )
         }
 

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/ui/screens/RemoteInputScreen.kt

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ import android.content.res.Configuration
 import androidx.activity.compose.BackHandler
 import androidx.compose.foundation.Image
 import androidx.compose.foundation.background
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Arrangement
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Box
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Column
+import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.Row
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.WindowInsets
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxSize
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
@@ -54,7 +56,12 @@ import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.TextMuted
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
 
 @Composable
-fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
+fun RemoteInputScreen(
+    onBack: () -> Unit,
+    onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null,
+    // Land on the keyboard instead of the gamepad (hub menu's Keyboard card).
+    startInKeyboard: Boolean = false,
+) {
     val context = LocalContext.current
     val prefs = remember { ServerPreferences(context) }
     val scope = rememberCoroutineScope()
@@ -63,7 +70,7 @@ fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
     val savedServers by prefs.savedServers.collectAsState(initial = emptyList())
     val activeServer by prefs.activeServer.collectAsState(initial = null)
 
-    var isGamepadMode by remember { mutableStateOf(true) }
+    var isGamepadMode by remember { mutableStateOf(!startInKeyboard) }
     var showModal by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
     var showQrScanner by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
     var controllerStyle by remember { mutableStateOf(ControllerStyle.DARK) }
@@ -90,6 +97,9 @@ fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
         playerId = when (playerId) { 0 -> 1; 1 -> 2; else -> 0 }
         ws.playerId = playerId
     }
+    fun toggleStyle() {
+        controllerStyle = if (controllerStyle == ControllerStyle.CLASSIC) ControllerStyle.DARK else ControllerStyle.CLASSIC
+    }
     val connectionState by ws.state.collectAsState()
     val lifecycleOwner = LocalLifecycleOwner.current
 
@@ -153,6 +163,7 @@ fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
                 onKey = { ws.sendKey(it) },
                 onMenu = { showModal = true },
                 onPlayerToggle = ::togglePlayer,
+                onToggleStyle = ::toggleStyle,
             )
             isGamepadMode && !isLandscape -> NESPortraitController(
                 style = controllerStyle,
@@ -163,6 +174,7 @@ fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
                 onMouseScroll = { ws.sendScroll(it) },
                 onMenu = { showModal = true },
                 onPlayerToggle = ::togglePlayer,
+                onToggleStyle = ::toggleStyle,
             )
             else -> {
                 // Keyboard mode: trackpad fills top, keyboard pinned bottom
@@ -182,12 +194,20 @@ fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
                             modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
                         )
                     }
-                    // Settings icon top-right in keyboard mode
-                    com.archipelago.app.ui.components.SettingsBtn(
-                        c = com.archipelago.app.ui.components.paletteFor(controllerStyle),
-                        modifier = Modifier.align(Alignment.TopEnd).padding(8.dp),
-                        onClick = { showModal = true },
-                    )
+                    // Settings + style icons top-right in keyboard mode
+                    Row(
+                        Modifier.align(Alignment.TopEnd).padding(8.dp),
+                        horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.spacedBy(8.dp),
+                    ) {
+                        com.archipelago.app.ui.components.SettingsBtn(
+                            c = com.archipelago.app.ui.components.paletteFor(controllerStyle),
+                            onClick = { showModal = true },
+                        )
+                        com.archipelago.app.ui.components.StyleBtn(
+                            c = com.archipelago.app.ui.components.paletteFor(controllerStyle),
+                            onClick = ::toggleStyle,
+                        )
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -210,8 +230,6 @@ fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
             visible = showModal,
             servers = savedServers,
             activeServer = activeServer,
-            isGamepadMode = isGamepadMode,
-            controllerStyle = controllerStyle,
             onDismiss = { showModal = false },
             onSelectServer = { server ->
                 scope.launch { ws.disconnect(); prefs.setActiveServer(server) }; showModal = false
@@ -245,10 +263,8 @@ fun RemoteInputScreen(onBack: () -> Unit, onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null) {
                     }
                 }
             },
-            onToggleMode = { isGamepadMode = !isGamepadMode; showModal = false },
-            onToggleStyle = {
-                controllerStyle = if (controllerStyle == ControllerStyle.CLASSIC) ControllerStyle.DARK else ControllerStyle.CLASSIC
-            },
+            onRemote = { isGamepadMode = true; showModal = false },
+            onKeyboard = { isGamepadMode = false; showModal = false },
             onBackToWebView = { showModal = false; onBack() },
             onMeshParty = onMeshParty?.let { open -> { showModal = false; open() } },
         )

Android/app/src/main/java/com/archipelago/app/ui/screens/WebViewScreen.kt

@@ -88,8 +88,11 @@ import androidx.compose.ui.viewinterop.AndroidView
 import android.webkit.ValueCallback
 import com.archipelago.app.R
 import com.archipelago.app.data.ServerPreferences
+import com.archipelago.app.fips.FipsManager
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.components.GestureHintOverlay
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.components.MeshLoadingScreen
+import com.archipelago.app.ui.components.NESMenu
+import com.archipelago.app.ui.components.QrScannerOverlay
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.components.WalletQrScannerModal
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.BitcoinOrange
 import com.archipelago.app.ui.theme.ErrorRed
@@ -179,6 +182,38 @@ private fun injectSafeAreaVars(view: WebView) {
                 document.head.appendChild(style);
             }
             style.textContent = ':root { --safe-area-top: ${sat}px; --safe-area-bottom: ${sab}px; }';
+            // Vue components sample the var into reactive state; tell them it
+            // changed (an authenticated session can mount before we run).
+            window.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('archy-insets', { detail: { top: ${sat}, bottom: ${sab} } }));
+        })();
+        """.trimIndent(),
+        null,
+    )
+}
+
+/** In-app browser pages (node apps + same-node links) don't consume the
+ *  neode-ui `--safe-area-top` var, so with the WebView drawing edge-to-edge
+ *  their content ran up under the status bar. Pad the document body down by
+ *  the status-bar height: the padded strip shows the page's OWN background
+ *  (padding is inside the element), so the bar keeps the page colour while
+ *  content starts below it — the pre-edge-to-edge look, without the black bar.
+ *  Idempotent; runs on start (early) and finish (after the app rewrites head). */
+private fun injectTopInset(view: WebView) {
+    val insets = view.rootWindowInsets ?: return
+    val density = view.resources.displayMetrics.density
+    val sat = (insets.getInsets(android.view.WindowInsets.Type.statusBars()).top / density).toInt()
+    if (sat <= 0) return
+    view.evaluateJavascript(
+        """
+        (function() {
+            var s = document.getElementById('archy-top-inset');
+            if (!s) {
+                s = document.createElement('style');
+                s.id = 'archy-top-inset';
+                (document.head || document.documentElement).appendChild(s);
+            }
+            s.textContent =
+                'body{padding-top:${sat}px!important;box-sizing:border-box!important;}';
         })();
         """.trimIndent(),
         null,
@@ -198,13 +233,17 @@ private fun tcpAnswers(base: String, timeoutMs: Int): Boolean = try {
 }
 
 /** Fastest answering origin: LAN inside a short window, else the mesh ULA
- *  (patient — a cold session may still be establishing), else LAN anyway so
- *  the existing error/fallback path handles it. */
+ *  (patient — a cold session may still be establishing). If NEITHER answers,
+ *  fall back to the mesh URL when we have one — off-LAN the LAN IP is
+ *  unreachable, and loading it just produced a confusing "can't reach
+ *  192.168.x.x" error page (user-reported 2026-07-27). Targeting the mesh URL
+ *  instead means the load retries against the path that's actually coming up,
+ *  and any error shows the mesh address rather than a dead LAN IP. */
 private suspend fun pickStartUrl(lanUrl: String, meshUrl: String?): String =
     withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
         if (tcpAnswers(lanUrl, 2500)) return@withContext lanUrl
         if (meshUrl != null && tcpAnswers(meshUrl, 12_000)) return@withContext meshUrl
-        lanUrl
+        meshUrl ?: lanUrl
     }
 
 /** Apply the WebView settings shared by the kiosk view and the in-app browser.
@@ -245,6 +284,10 @@ fun WebViewScreen(
     serverUrl: String,
     onDisconnect: () -> Unit,
     onRemoteInput: () -> Unit = {},
+    // Like onRemoteInput but landing on the keyboard (the hub menu's Keyboard card).
+    onRemoteKeyboard: () -> Unit = {},
+    // Opens the phone-to-phone Mesh Party screen; null hides its hub card.
+    onMeshParty: (() -> Unit)? = null,
     // Stored password for this server (from QR pairing or manual entry). When
     // non-blank, the login page is auto-filled and submitted — the one-step
     // demo flow from docs/companion-pairing-qr.md.
@@ -323,6 +366,14 @@ fun WebViewScreen(
     // One-time three-finger-hold teaching overlay (initial=true: never flash
     // it while DataStore is still loading).
     val prefs = remember { ServerPreferences(webViewContext) }
+
+    // Hub menu overlay state — the three-finger hold opens the menu right here
+    // over the dashboard (it used to jump to the remote screen).
+    val savedServers by prefs.savedServers.collectAsState(initial = emptyList())
+    val activeServer by prefs.activeServer.collectAsState(initial = null)
+    var showHubMenu by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+    var showPairScanner by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
+
     val gestureHintSeen by prefs.gestureHintSeen.collectAsState(initial = true)
     var gestureHintDismissed by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
     // Don't teach the gesture on top of the login/splash — arm the overlay
@@ -708,7 +759,8 @@ fun WebViewScreen(
                             }
                         }
 
-                        // Three-finger hold (500ms) → navigate to remote input.
+                        // Three-finger hold (500ms) → open the hub menu overlay
+                        // in place (Remote/Keyboard cards do the navigating).
                         // Three fingers, not two: two-finger scroll/pinch on the
                         // page collided with the old two-finger hold.
                         var threeFingerStart = 0L
@@ -726,7 +778,7 @@ fun WebViewScreen(
                                     if (pointerCount >= 3 && !threeFingerFired && threeFingerStart > 0) {
                                         if (System.currentTimeMillis() - threeFingerStart > 500) {
                                             threeFingerFired = true
-                                            onRemoteInput()
+                                            showHubMenu = true
                                         }
                                     }
                                 }
@@ -851,6 +903,68 @@ fun WebViewScreen(
                 )
             }
         }
+
+        // Hub menu overlay — opened by the three-finger hold, drawn above
+        // everything (also reachable from the error screen, where switching
+        // servers is exactly what's needed).
+        NESMenu(
+            visible = showHubMenu,
+            servers = savedServers,
+            activeServer = activeServer,
+            onDismiss = { showHubMenu = false },
+            onSelectServer = { server ->
+                showHubMenu = false
+                scope.launch { prefs.setActiveServer(server) }
+            },
+            onAddServer = { server ->
+                scope.launch {
+                    prefs.addSavedServer(server)
+                    if (activeServer == null) prefs.setActiveServer(server)
+                }
+            },
+            onScanQr = { showPairScanner = true },
+            onEditServer = { original, updated ->
+                scope.launch {
+                    prefs.updateSavedServer(original, updated)
+                    // Editing the live server reloads the kiosk with the new
+                    // address/credentials via the activeServer recomposition.
+                    if (original.serialize() == activeServer?.serialize()) {
+                        prefs.setActiveServer(updated)
+                    }
+                }
+            },
+            onRemoveServer = { server ->
+                scope.launch {
+                    prefs.removeSavedServer(server)
+                    // Nothing left to show — back to the Connect screen.
+                    val remaining = savedServers.count { it.serialize() != server.serialize() }
+                    if (remaining == 0) {
+                        prefs.clearActiveServer()
+                        showHubMenu = false
+                        onDisconnect()
+                    }
+                }
+            },
+            onRemote = { showHubMenu = false; onRemoteInput() },
+            onKeyboard = { showHubMenu = false; onRemoteKeyboard() },
+            onBackToWebView = { showHubMenu = false },
+            onMeshParty = onMeshParty?.let { open -> { showHubMenu = false; open() } },
+        )
+
+        // Pairing-QR scan launched from the menu's Nodes page; the menu stays
+        // open behind it so the new entry appears as soon as it closes.
+        QrScannerOverlay(
+            visible = showPairScanner,
+            onDismiss = { showPairScanner = false },
+            onServerScanned = { scan ->
+                showPairScanner = false
+                scope.launch {
+                    val merged = prefs.upsertServer(scan.server)
+                    FipsManager.registerNode(webViewContext, scan.fips, merged.displayName())
+                    if (activeServer == null) prefs.setActiveServer(merged)
+                }
+            },
+        )
     }
 }
 
@@ -897,7 +1011,17 @@ private fun InAppBrowser(
     fun isSameNode(u: String): Boolean =
         isSameHost(u, serverUrl) || (meshUrl != null && isSameHost(u, meshUrl))
     var browser by remember { mutableStateOf<WebView?>(null) }
-    var title by remember { mutableStateOf(android.net.Uri.parse(url).host ?: url) }
+    // Loader title: never show a raw IP host — a mesh ULA like
+    // [fd79:1aa:…] is technically the host but reads as garbage on the
+    // loading screen. Show a neutral name until the page reports its
+    // real <title> (onReceivedTitle upgrades it).
+    var title by remember {
+        mutableStateOf(
+            android.net.Uri.parse(url).host
+                ?.takeUnless { it.contains(':') || it.matches(Regex("^\\d+(\\.\\d+){3}$")) }
+                ?: "Archipelago",
+        )
+    }
     var favicon by remember { mutableStateOf<Bitmap?>(null) }
     var progress by remember { mutableIntStateOf(0) }
     var loading by remember { mutableStateOf(true) }
@@ -935,12 +1059,21 @@ private fun InAppBrowser(
         modifier = Modifier
             .fillMaxSize()
             .background(SurfaceBlack)
-            // Bottom inset handled by the touch-shield strip below the bar —
-            // NOT by padding: a padded area only paints, it doesn't consume,
-            // so taps in the gesture strip fell straight THROUGH this overlay
-            // into the kiosk's tab bar behind it (accidental AIUI-tab hits).
+            // Whole-overlay touch shield: every touch not handled by a child
+            // (control-bar gaps, inset strips) dies here instead of falling
+            // through to the kiosk's tab bar behind (a near-miss on Close
+            // was opening the AIUI tab underneath).
+            .clickable(
+                interactionSource = remember { MutableInteractionSource() },
+                indication = null,
+                onClick = {},
+            )
+            // Bottom inset handled by the touch-shield strip below the bar.
+            // No TOP inset padding: the WebView draws edge-to-edge behind the
+            // status bar so the app's own background fills it — the padded
+            // version painted an opaque black bar there (user-rejected look).
             .windowInsetsPadding(
-                WindowInsets.safeDrawing.only(WindowInsetsSides.Horizontal + WindowInsetsSides.Top)
+                WindowInsets.safeDrawing.only(WindowInsetsSides.Horizontal)
             ),
     ) {
         // WebView + loading overlay fill the area above the bottom control bar.
@@ -992,12 +1125,14 @@ private fun InAppBrowser(
                         webViewClient = object : WebViewClient() {
                             override fun onPageStarted(view: WebView?, u: String?, favicon: Bitmap?) {
                                 loading = true
+                                view?.let { injectTopInset(it) }
                             }
 
                             override fun onPageFinished(view: WebView?, u: String?) {
                                 loading = false
                                 canGoBack = view?.canGoBack() == true
                                 canGoForward = view?.canGoForward() == true
+                                view?.let { injectTopInset(it) }
                             }
 
                             override fun doUpdateVisitedHistory(view: WebView?, u: String?, isReload: Boolean) {

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v1.7.116-alpha (2026-07-27)
+
+- Nodes no longer get stuck on "server starting up" after an update or reboot. On a node running many apps, the backend used to spend minutes recovering containers before it told the system it was ready, and anything that touched it during that window could leave it down for good. It now reports ready immediately and recovers in the background, and it always restarts itself if it ever does go down.
+- Installing apps no longer crashes the node. A change that made app screens reachable over the mesh was accidentally holding onto every app's network port in advance — so installing an app like Grafana, Photoprism, Uptime Kuma, or Jellyfin collided with it and the port-cleanup step took the whole backend down, rolling the install back. Installs are now clean and the backend can never be caught by that cleanup.
+- Rolls up everything from v1.7.115: app screens and the dashboard load over the mesh out of the box (firewall openings shipped automatically, IPv6 support end to end), and nodes rejoin the mesh in seconds after their rendezvous point restarts.
+
+## v1.7.115-alpha (2026-07-26)
+
+- The companion app can reach your node's screen from anywhere again. The recent security hardening locked down the node's mesh interface so tightly that the dashboard itself was blocked — the phone would pair and connect, then sit on a blank screen. The node now explicitly opens its own web interface (and only that) through the mesh firewall on every install and upgrade, so the phone's view of your node works out of the box, on any network, and can't silently break in a future update.
+- The node's web interface also answers on IPv6 everywhere it answers on IPv4 — the mesh runs entirely on IPv6, and one v4-only listener was enough to make a working connection show nothing.
+- Nodes now come back onto the mesh in seconds instead of minutes after their rendezvous anchor restarts: the fast-reconnect tuning proven on the phone this week is now baked into every node's mesh configuration, and it survives upgrades.
+
 ## v1.7.114-alpha (2026-07-26)
 
 - Plugging in a mesh radio no longer traps it in an endless reboot loop. The device detector itself was causing it: every scan pulsed the radio's reset line, the same board was probed twice under two names, and retries came so fast the radio never finished booting before the next reset hit. Detection now gives the board real time to boot, probes it once, backs off properly between attempts, and no longer fights the "device detected" popup for the port. Radios that could never connect now come up within a minute of being plugged in.

core/Cargo.lock

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "archipelago"
-version = "1.7.114-alpha"
+version = "1.7.116-alpha"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "archipelago-container",

core/archipelago/Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "archipelago"
-version = "1.7.114-alpha"
+version = "1.7.116-alpha"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "Archipelago Bitcoin Node OS - Native backend"
 authors = ["Archipelago Team"]

core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/dispatcher.rs

@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ impl RpcHandler {
             "lnd.estimatefee" => self.handle_lnd_estimatefee(params).await,
             "lnd.createinvoice" => self.handle_lnd_createinvoice(params).await,
             "lnd.payinvoice" => self.handle_lnd_payinvoice(params).await,
+            "lnd.paymentstatus" => self.handle_lnd_paymentstatus(params).await,
             "lnd.create-psbt" => self.handle_lnd_create_psbt(params).await,
             "lnd.finalize-psbt" => self.handle_lnd_finalize_psbt(params).await,
             "lnd.create-raw-tx" => self.handle_lnd_create_raw_tx(params).await,

core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/lnd/payments.rs

@@ -36,6 +36,33 @@ impl RpcHandler {
 
         let (client, macaroon_hex) = self.lnd_client().await?;
 
+        // Decode the invoice up front (fast, local) so we know its payment
+        // hash BEFORE handing it to LND. If the payment outlives our wait
+        // below, the hash is what lets the UI keep tracking it instead of
+        // declaring a false failure. Best-effort: a decode hiccup must not
+        // block the payment itself.
+        let (decoded_hash, decoded_amt) = match client
+            .get(format!("{LND_REST_BASE_URL}/v1/payreq/{payment_request}"))
+            .header("Grpc-Metadata-macaroon", &macaroon_hex)
+            .send()
+            .await
+        {
+            Ok(r) => match r.json::<serde_json::Value>().await {
+                Ok(d) => (
+                    d.get("payment_hash")
+                        .and_then(|v| v.as_str())
+                        .unwrap_or("")
+                        .to_string(),
+                    d.get("num_satoshis")
+                        .and_then(|v| v.as_str())
+                        .and_then(|s| s.parse::<i64>().ok())
+                        .unwrap_or(0),
+                ),
+                Err(_) => (String::new(), 0),
+            },
+            Err(_) => (String::new(), 0),
+        };
+
         let mut pay_body = serde_json::json!({
             "payment_request": payment_request,
         });
@@ -43,13 +70,46 @@ impl RpcHandler {
             pay_body["amt"] = serde_json::json!(amt.to_string());
         }
 
-        let resp = client
+        // `/v1/channels/transactions` is SYNCHRONOUS: it blocks until the
+        // payment settles or definitively fails, and multi-hop routing with
+        // retries routinely takes longer than the shared client's 15s budget.
+        // That 15s abort used to surface as "Payment failed" while LND kept
+        // paying in the background — the payment then succeeded and appeared
+        // in history a minute later. Wait up to 120s on a dedicated client,
+        // and treat a post-connect timeout as IN FLIGHT (status: pending),
+        // never as failure — only LND may declare a payment failed.
+        let pay_client = reqwest::Client::builder()
+            .no_proxy()
+            .connect_timeout(std::time::Duration::from_secs(10))
+            .timeout(std::time::Duration::from_secs(120))
+            .danger_accept_invalid_certs(true)
+            .build()
+            .context("Failed to create HTTP client")?;
+
+        let resp = match pay_client
             .post(format!("{LND_REST_BASE_URL}/v1/channels/transactions"))
             .header("Grpc-Metadata-macaroon", &macaroon_hex)
             .json(&pay_body)
             .send()
             .await
-            .context("Failed to pay invoice")?;
+        {
+            Ok(r) => r,
+            Err(e) if e.is_connect() => {
+                // Never reached LND — nothing was sent; this IS a hard error.
+                return Err(anyhow::anyhow!("Could not reach LND to pay: {e}"));
+            }
+            Err(_) => {
+                // Timed out (or lost the connection) AFTER the payment was
+                // handed to LND — it may well still succeed. Report pending
+                // with the hash so the caller can poll lnd.paymentstatus.
+                info!("payinvoice wait elapsed; payment still in flight");
+                return Ok(serde_json::json!({
+                    "status": "pending",
+                    "payment_hash": decoded_hash,
+                    "amount_sats": decoded_amt,
+                }));
+            }
+        };
 
         let status = resp.status();
         let body: serde_json::Value = resp
@@ -86,20 +146,105 @@ impl RpcHandler {
             .and_then(|r| r.get("total_amt"))
             .and_then(|v| v.as_str())
             .and_then(|s| s.parse::<i64>().ok())
-            .unwrap_or(0);
+            .unwrap_or(decoded_amt);
 
         let payment_hash = body
             .get("payment_hash")
             .and_then(|v| v.as_str())
-            .unwrap_or("")
-            .to_string();
+            .filter(|s| !s.is_empty())
+            .map(|s| s.to_string())
+            .unwrap_or(decoded_hash);
 
         Ok(serde_json::json!({
+            "status": "succeeded",
             "payment_hash": payment_hash,
             "amount_sats": amount_sat,
         }))
     }
 
+    /// Status of an outgoing Lightning payment by hex payment hash. Lets the
+    /// UI resolve a payinvoice that outlived its synchronous wait (`status:
+    /// "pending"`) to a real terminal state instead of guessing.
+    pub(in crate::api::rpc) async fn handle_lnd_paymentstatus(
+        &self,
+        params: Option<serde_json::Value>,
+    ) -> Result<serde_json::Value> {
+        let params = params.unwrap_or_default();
+        let payment_hash = params
+            .get("payment_hash")
+            .and_then(|v| v.as_str())
+            .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("Missing 'payment_hash' parameter"))?;
+        if payment_hash.len() != 64 || !payment_hash.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_hexdigit()) {
+            return Err(anyhow::anyhow!("Invalid payment hash"));
+        }
+
+        let (client, macaroon_hex) = self.lnd_client().await?;
+        let resp = client
+            .get(format!(
+                "{LND_REST_BASE_URL}/v1/payments?include_incomplete=true&max_payments=100&reversed=true"
+            ))
+            .header("Grpc-Metadata-macaroon", &macaroon_hex)
+            .send()
+            .await
+            .context("LND REST connection failed")?;
+        let body: serde_json::Value = resp
+            .json()
+            .await
+            .context("Failed to parse payments response")?;
+
+        let hash_lower = payment_hash.to_lowercase();
+        let found = body
+            .get("payments")
+            .and_then(|v| v.as_array())
+            .and_then(|arr| {
+                arr.iter().find(|p| {
+                    p.get("payment_hash").and_then(|v| v.as_str())
+                        == Some(hash_lower.as_str())
+                })
+            });
+
+        let Some(p) = found else {
+            // Not in the latest window — either very old or LND never saw it.
+            return Ok(serde_json::json!({ "status": "unknown" }));
+        };
+
+        let lnd_status = p.get("status").and_then(|v| v.as_str()).unwrap_or("");
+        let status = match lnd_status {
+            "SUCCEEDED" => "succeeded",
+            "FAILED" => "failed",
+            _ => "in_flight",
+        };
+        let failure_reason = match p
+            .get("failure_reason")
+            .and_then(|v| v.as_str())
+            .unwrap_or("")
+        {
+            "FAILURE_REASON_NO_ROUTE" => "No route to the recipient",
+            "FAILURE_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE" => "Insufficient channel balance",
+            "FAILURE_REASON_TIMEOUT" => "Payment timed out in the network",
+            "FAILURE_REASON_INCORRECT_PAYMENT_DETAILS" => {
+                "Recipient rejected the payment (wrong details or expired invoice)"
+            }
+            "FAILURE_REASON_ERROR" => "Payment failed",
+            _ => "",
+        };
+
+        fn amt(p: &serde_json::Value, key: &str) -> i64 {
+            p.get(key)
+                .and_then(|f| f.as_str())
+                .and_then(|s| s.parse().ok())
+                .or_else(|| p.get(key).and_then(|f| f.as_i64()))
+                .unwrap_or(0)
+        }
+
+        Ok(serde_json::json!({
+            "status": status,
+            "failure_reason": failure_reason,
+            "amount_sats": amt(p, "value_sat"),
+            "fee_sats": amt(p, "fee_sat"),
+        }))
+    }
+
     /// List on-chain transactions from LND.
     /// Returns all transactions, with incoming (amount > 0) flagged.
     pub(in crate::api::rpc) async fn handle_lnd_gettransactions(

core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/package/install.rs

@@ -2324,17 +2324,28 @@ async fn cleanup_start_conflict(package_id: &str, stderr: &str) -> bool {
 }
 
 async fn cleanup_stale_pasta_port(port: &str) {
+    // NEVER kill our own process. The daemon holds catalog app ports over
+    // IPv6 (the mesh app-port relay), so a blunt `fuser -k <port>/tcp` would
+    // terminate archipelago itself mid-install — installs failed and apps
+    // vanished on framework-pt 2026-07-27. Kill every listener on the port
+    // EXCEPT our PID (and our process group), leaving the relay/daemon alive.
+    let self_pid = std::process::id();
     let kill_listener = format!(
-        "ss -ltnp 'sport = :{}' 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*pid=\\([0-9]*\\).*/\\1/p' | xargs -r kill 2>/dev/null || true",
-        port
+        "ss -ltnp 'sport = :{port}' 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*pid=\\([0-9]*\\).*/\\1/p' | \
+         while read p; do [ \"$p\" = \"{self_pid}\" ] || kill \"$p\" 2>/dev/null; done || true",
     );
     let _ = tokio::process::Command::new("sh")
         .args(["-c", &kill_listener])
         .output()
         .await;
 
-    let _ = tokio::process::Command::new("sudo")
-        .args(["fuser", "-k", &format!("{}/tcp", port)])
+    // sudo fuser -k, but exclude our own PID: fuser prints the PIDs holding
+    // the port; kill each except self. (`fuser -k` has no exclusion flag.)
+    let fuser_kill = format!(
+        "for p in $(sudo fuser {port}/tcp 2>/dev/null); do [ \"$p\" = \"{self_pid}\" ] || sudo kill \"$p\" 2>/dev/null; done || true",
+    );
+    let _ = tokio::process::Command::new("sh")
+        .args(["-c", &fuser_kill])
         .output()
         .await;
 

core/archipelago/src/container/quadlet.rs

@@ -248,10 +248,17 @@ impl QuadletUnit {
                 } else {
                     proto.as_str()
                 };
-                // Keep the rendered directive byte-identical for unbound
-                // ports so existing units don't read as drifted.
+                // Unbound publishes are pinned to 0.0.0.0: rootlessport's
+                // wildcard bind claims [::] too but BLACK-HOLES inbound v6
+                // (accepts, forwards nothing — "empty response" from the
+                // mesh, confirmed 2026-07-26). Pinning v4 frees the port's
+                // v6 side for the daemon's mesh relay (app_port_v6_relay_loop),
+                // which forwards to the v4 loopback listener that works.
+                // NOTE: this changes the rendered directive for unbound
+                // ports on purpose — the one-time drift/recreate at upgrade
+                // is the deploy vehicle for the fix.
                 if bind.is_empty() {
-                    let _ = writeln!(s, "PublishPort={host}:{container}/{p}");
+                    let _ = writeln!(s, "PublishPort=0.0.0.0:{host}:{container}/{p}");
                 } else {
                     let _ = writeln!(s, "PublishPort={bind}:{host}:{container}/{p}");
                 }
@@ -1018,7 +1025,7 @@ mod tests {
         u.network = NetworkMode::Bridge("archy-net".into());
         u.ports = vec![(3000, 3000, "tcp".into(), String::new())];
         let s = u.render();
-        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=3000:3000/tcp"));
+        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=0.0.0.0:3000:3000/tcp"));
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -1167,8 +1174,8 @@ mod tests {
         let s = u.render();
         assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=127.0.0.1:8332:8332/tcp"));
         assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=10.89.0.1:8332:8332/tcp"));
-        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=8333:8333/tcp"));
-        assert!(!s.contains("PublishPort=8332:8332/tcp"));
+        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=0.0.0.0:8333:8333/tcp"));
+        assert!(!s.contains("PublishPort=0.0.0.0:8332:8332/tcp"));
     }
 
     #[test]
@@ -1200,8 +1207,8 @@ mod tests {
             ..QuadletUnit::default()
         };
         let s = u.render();
-        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=8332:8332/tcp"));
-        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=8333:8333/tcp"));
+        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=0.0.0.0:8332:8332/tcp"));
+        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=0.0.0.0:8333:8333/tcp"));
         assert!(s.contains("Environment=BITCOIN_RPC_USER=archipelago"));
         assert!(s.contains("Environment=BITCOIN_RPC_PASS=secret"));
         assert!(s.contains("Environment=\"RELAY_NAME=Archipelago Nostr Relay\""));
@@ -1317,7 +1324,7 @@ app:
         let m = AppManifest::parse(yaml).expect("manifest must parse");
         let s = QuadletUnit::from_manifest(&m, "searxng").render();
 
-        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=8888:8080/tcp"));
+        assert!(s.contains("PublishPort=0.0.0.0:8888:8080/tcp"));
         assert!(!s.contains("Network=host"));
     }
 
@@ -1746,7 +1753,7 @@ app:
         assert!(body.contains("Network=archy-net"));
         assert!(body.contains("NetworkAlias=lnd"));
         assert!(body.contains("PodmanArgs=--network-alias=lnd"));
-        assert!(body.contains("PublishPort=10009:10009/tcp"));
+        assert!(body.contains("PublishPort=0.0.0.0:10009:10009/tcp"));
         assert!(body.contains("Volume=/var/lib/archipelago/lnd:/root/.lnd:Z"));
         assert!(body.contains("Environment=LND_NETWORK=mainnet"));
         assert!(body.contains("PodmanArgs=--memory=1024m"));

core/archipelago/src/fips/app_ports.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+//! Generated by scripts/generate-app-catalog.py. Do not edit manually.
+//!
+//! Catalog app launch ports (the web UIs the companion opens by direct
+//! port). Used to write the fips0 firewall allowance drop-in so app UIs
+//! are reachable over the mesh; ports of apps that aren't installed have
+//! no listener, so allowing them is inert.
+
+pub const APP_LAUNCH_PORTS: &[u16] = &[
+    2283,
+    2342,
+    3000,
+    3001,
+    3002,
+    4080,
+    5180,
+    7778,
+    8080,
+    8081,
+    8082,
+    8083,
+    8084,
+    8085,
+    8087,
+    8088,
+    8089,
+    8090,
+    8096,
+    8123,
+    8175,
+    8176,
+    8240,
+    8334,
+    8888,
+    8999,
+    9000,
+    9100,
+    10380,
+    11434,
+    18081,
+    18083,
+    23000,
+    32838,
+    50002,
+];

core/archipelago/src/fips/config.rs

@@ -48,6 +48,30 @@ pub struct FipsConfig {
 pub struct NodeSection {
     pub identity: IdentitySection,
     pub discovery: DiscoverySection,
+    pub retry: RetrySection,
+    pub rate_limit: RateLimitSection,
+}
+
+/// Fast-reconnect profile (`node.retry.*`). Upstream defaults (5s base
+/// doubling to 300s) are tuned for stable always-on links; a node redialing
+/// a recycled anchor sat off-mesh for ~90s. Field names verified live on
+/// 2026-07-24: a daemon restarted with these keys in fips.yaml and peered.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize)]
+pub struct RetrySection {
+    pub base_interval_secs: u64,
+    pub max_backoff_secs: u64,
+    pub max_retries: u32,
+}
+
+/// Session-handshake resend pacing (`node.rate_limit.*`). Stock 1s x2.0
+/// gaps out to 8-16s between resends exactly when a route has just
+/// appeared; 400ms x1.5 keeps continuous coverage through the connect
+/// window (phone measured session-after-route: 225ms).
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize)]
+pub struct RateLimitSection {
+    pub handshake_resend_interval_ms: u64,
+    pub handshake_resend_backoff: f64,
+    pub handshake_max_resends: u32,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize)]
@@ -60,6 +84,14 @@ pub struct IdentitySection {
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Serialize)]
 pub struct DiscoverySection {
+    /// Lookup completion timeout. Lookups fired while the tree position is
+    /// still settling are doomed; failing them fast (5s, not 10s) lets the
+    /// 1s-backoff retry find the route the moment it exists.
+    pub timeout_secs: u64,
+    pub backoff_base_secs: u64,
+    pub backoff_max_secs: u64,
+    pub retry_interval_secs: u64,
+    pub max_attempts: u8,
     pub lan: LanDiscoverySection,
 }
 
@@ -123,8 +155,23 @@ impl Default for FipsConfig {
             node: NodeSection {
                 identity: IdentitySection { persistent: true },
                 discovery: DiscoverySection {
+                    timeout_secs: 5,
+                    backoff_base_secs: 1,
+                    backoff_max_secs: 30,
+                    retry_interval_secs: 2,
+                    max_attempts: 3,
                     lan: LanDiscoverySection { enabled: true },
                 },
+                retry: RetrySection {
+                    base_interval_secs: 1,
+                    max_backoff_secs: 30,
+                    max_retries: 30,
+                },
+                rate_limit: RateLimitSection {
+                    handshake_resend_interval_ms: 400,
+                    handshake_resend_backoff: 1.5,
+                    handshake_max_resends: 10,
+                },
             },
             tun: TunSection {
                 enabled: true,
@@ -186,6 +233,65 @@ pub async fn install(identity_dir: &Path) -> Result<()> {
     let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(&stage).await;
     install_result?;
 
+    // The release-hardening firewall (/etc/fips/fips.nft, provisioned
+    // out-of-band) default-denies inbound on fips0 — without an explicit
+    // allowance the node's web UI is unreachable over the mesh (phones got
+    // RST on :80 with a healthy session; root-caused 2026-07-26 on
+    // framework-pt). Ship the allowance as a fips.d drop-in on every
+    // install/upgrade so no node ever regresses to a UI-less mesh.
+    sudo_install_dir("/etc/fips/fips.d").await?;
+    let dropin = "# Written by archipelago on every daemon config install.\n\
+                  # Allows the web UI + peer API through the fips0\n\
+                  # default-deny inbound baseline (fips.nft).\n\
+                  tcp dport 80 accept\n\
+                  tcp dport 8443 accept\n";
+    let nft_stage = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("fips-webui-{}.nft", std::process::id()));
+    tokio::fs::write(&nft_stage, dropin)
+        .await
+        .context("Failed to stage web-ui nft drop-in")?;
+    let nft_install = sudo_install_file(&nft_stage, "/etc/fips/fips.d/80-web-ui.nft", "0644").await;
+    let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(&nft_stage).await;
+    nft_install?;
+
+    // App launch ports: the companion opens catalog apps by direct port
+    // over the mesh. Ports of apps that aren't installed have no listener,
+    // so the allowance is inert until an app exists to answer.
+    let port_list = super::app_ports::APP_LAUNCH_PORTS
+        .iter()
+        .map(|p| p.to_string())
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>()
+        .join(", ");
+    let app_dropin = format!(
+        "# Written by archipelago on every daemon config install.\n\
+         # Catalog app launch ports (web UIs) allowed through the fips0\n\
+         # default-deny inbound baseline. Service/RPC ports stay closed.\n\
+         tcp dport {{ {port_list} }} accept\n"
+    );
+    let app_stage = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("fips-appports-{}.nft", std::process::id()));
+    tokio::fs::write(&app_stage, app_dropin)
+        .await
+        .context("Failed to stage app-ports nft drop-in")?;
+    let app_install =
+        sudo_install_file(&app_stage, "/etc/fips/fips.d/85-app-ports.nft", "0644").await;
+    let _ = tokio::fs::remove_file(&app_stage).await;
+    app_install?;
+    // Make the allowance live immediately; a no-op error when the
+    // hardening baseline isn't installed on this node yet.
+    if tokio::fs::try_exists("/etc/fips/fips.nft").await.unwrap_or(false) {
+        match Command::new("sudo")
+            .args(["nft", "-f", "/etc/fips/fips.nft"])
+            .output()
+            .await
+        {
+            Ok(out) if !out.status.success() => tracing::warn!(
+                "nft reload after web-ui drop-in failed: {}",
+                String::from_utf8_lossy(&out.stderr).trim()
+            ),
+            Err(e) => tracing::warn!("nft reload after web-ui drop-in failed: {e}"),
+            _ => {}
+        }
+    }
+
     sudo_install_file(&src_key, DAEMON_KEY_PATH, "0600").await?;
     // Heal a legacy fips_key.pub that was written as bech32 npub text
     // (pre-fix identity::write_fips_key_from_seed did this). Upstream
@@ -318,8 +424,21 @@ node:
   identity:
     persistent: true
   discovery:
+    timeout_secs: 5
+    backoff_base_secs: 1
+    backoff_max_secs: 30
+    retry_interval_secs: 2
+    max_attempts: 3
     lan:
       enabled: true
+  retry:
+    base_interval_secs: 1
+    max_backoff_secs: 30
+    max_retries: 30
+  rate_limit:
+    handshake_resend_interval_ms: 400
+    handshake_resend_backoff: 1.5
+    handshake_max_resends: 10
 tun:
   enabled: true
   name: fips0

core/archipelago/src/fips/mod.rs

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #![allow(dead_code)]
 
 pub mod anchors;
+pub mod app_ports;
 pub mod config;
 pub mod dial;
 pub mod iface;

core/archipelago/src/main.rs

@@ -199,6 +199,26 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
     // Now mark this instance as running so the next startup can detect a crash.
     crash_recovery::write_pid_marker(&config.data_dir).await?;
 
+    // Signal READY *before* the heavy synchronous boot recovery below. On a
+    // node with many stacks that recovery takes minutes, and the unit sat in
+    // `activating` the whole time — so anything that touched the service in
+    // that window (a superseding start/restart, a start-timeout) killed a
+    // half-started instance, which then exited 0 and (under the old
+    // Restart=on-failure) never came back: "server starting up" forever,
+    // reproduced on framework-pt installing apps on 2026-07-26. The daemon's
+    // real work (recovery, reconcile, listener) continues after READY; being
+    // "active" early is honest — the process is up and doing its job.
+    let _ = sd_notify::notify(false, &[sd_notify::NotifyState::Ready]);
+    // Watchdog pings must run DURING the long recovery too, or a slow boot
+    // trips WatchdogSec. Spawn the keepalive here rather than after serve().
+    tokio::spawn(async {
+        let mut interval = tokio::time::interval(std::time::Duration::from_secs(120));
+        loop {
+            interval.tick().await;
+            let _ = sd_notify::notify(false, &[sd_notify::NotifyState::Watchdog]);
+        }
+    });
+
     // Run crash recovery before starting the manifest reconciler. Both paths
     // mutate Podman; running them concurrently can corrupt transient runtime
     // state and leave netavark/conmon unable to start containers.
@@ -479,16 +499,9 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
 
     // Notify systemd that we're ready (Type=notify)
     // Note: first param `false` keeps NOTIFY_SOCKET so watchdog pings work
-    let _ = sd_notify::notify(false, &[sd_notify::NotifyState::Ready]);
-
-    // Spawn systemd watchdog ping (WatchdogSec=300, ping every 120s)
-    tokio::spawn(async {
-        let mut interval = tokio::time::interval(std::time::Duration::from_secs(120));
-        loop {
-            interval.tick().await;
-            let _ = sd_notify::notify(false, &[sd_notify::NotifyState::Watchdog]);
-        }
-    });
+    // READY + watchdog keepalive were already signalled/spawned earlier
+    // (before boot recovery) so the unit reaches `active` in seconds instead
+    // of sitting in `activating` through a minutes-long recovery.
 
     // Graceful shutdown: wait for SIGTERM or SIGINT
     let mut sigterm = signal::unix::signal(signal::unix::SignalKind::terminate())

core/archipelago/src/server.rs

@@ -988,8 +988,54 @@ impl Server {
             main_addr,
         ));
 
+        // The mesh is IPv6-only: a phone reaching the node over its fips0
+        // ULA lands on port 80 over v6, where a 0.0.0.0 listener never
+        // answers — the UI was structurally unreachable over the mesh
+        // (RST -> ERR_CONNECTION_ABORTED, confirmed 2026-07-26: v4:80 = 200,
+        // v6:80 = refused). Mirror an IPv4-any main listener with a
+        // V6ONLY [::] socket on the same port — v6-only so it coexists
+        // with the v4 listener regardless of net.ipv6.bindv6only.
+        let v4_any_port = match main_addr {
+            SocketAddr::V4(v4) if v4.ip().is_unspecified() => Some(v4.port()),
+            _ => None,
+        };
+        let v6_task = if let Some(port) = v4_any_port {
+            let v6_addr = SocketAddr::new(
+                std::net::IpAddr::V6(std::net::Ipv6Addr::UNSPECIFIED),
+                port,
+            );
+            match bind_v6_only(v6_addr) {
+                Ok(listener) => {
+                    info!("IPv6 web listener bound {} (mesh ULA reachable)", v6_addr);
+                    Some(tokio::spawn(accept_loop(
+                        self.api_handler.clone(),
+                        listener,
+                        active_connections.clone(),
+                        false, // same semantics as the main listener
+                        tx.subscribe(),
+                        v6_addr,
+                    )))
+                }
+                Err(e) => {
+                    warn!("IPv6 web listener bind {} failed: {} — UI stays v4-only", v6_addr, e);
+                    None
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            None
+        };
+
         // Peer listener: late-binding so we don't need an archipelago
         // restart when fips0 comes up after onboarding.
+        // App UIs over the mesh: rootless podman's port forwarder binds
+        // IPv4 only for most apps, so a phone dialing [ULA]:8123 got
+        // nothing even with the firewall open (HA/FileBrowser/Gitea/
+        // Portainer/Pine all v4-only on 2026-07-26; a few bind [::]
+        // themselves). Bridge each catalog launch port to its v4 loopback
+        // listener with a V6ONLY relay — self-selecting: where the app
+        // already answers on v6 the bind fails and the app wins.
+        let relay_task = tokio::spawn(app_port_v6_relay_loop(tx.subscribe()));
+
         let peer_task = tokio::spawn(peer_late_bind_loop(
             self.api_handler.clone(),
             active_connections.clone(),
@@ -1012,6 +1058,10 @@ impl Server {
         }
 
         let _ = main_task.await;
+        if let Some(t) = v6_task {
+            let _ = t.await;
+        }
+        relay_task.abort();
         let _ = peer_task.await;
 
         info!("Shutdown complete");
@@ -1019,6 +1069,98 @@ impl Server {
     }
 }
 
+/// Bind a V6ONLY `[::]` TCP listener. V6ONLY is set explicitly so the
+/// socket never claims the IPv4 side (which the main listener owns) —
+/// without it, Linux hosts with `net.ipv6.bindv6only=0` would fail with
+/// EADDRINUSE.
+fn bind_v6_only(addr: SocketAddr) -> std::io::Result<tokio::net::TcpListener> {
+    let socket = socket2::Socket::new(
+        socket2::Domain::IPV6,
+        socket2::Type::STREAM,
+        Some(socket2::Protocol::TCP),
+    )?;
+    socket.set_only_v6(true)?;
+    socket.set_reuse_address(true)?;
+    socket.set_nonblocking(true)?;
+    socket.bind(&addr.into())?;
+    socket.listen(1024)?;
+    tokio::net::TcpListener::from_std(socket.into())
+}
+
+/// IPv6→IPv4 relay for catalog app launch ports (see the spawn site for
+/// why). Rescans every 60s so ports of freshly installed apps get bridged
+/// without a daemon restart. Each relay is a V6ONLY listener forwarding
+/// raw TCP to the same port on IPv4 loopback.
+async fn app_port_v6_relay_loop(mut shutdown_rx: tokio::sync::watch::Receiver<bool>) {
+    use std::collections::HashSet;
+    let mut bridged: HashSet<u16> = HashSet::new();
+    let mut interval = tokio::time::interval(std::time::Duration::from_secs(60));
+    interval.set_missed_tick_behavior(tokio::time::MissedTickBehavior::Delay);
+    loop {
+        tokio::select! {
+            _ = interval.tick() => {
+                for &port in crate::fips::app_ports::APP_LAUNCH_PORTS {
+                    if bridged.contains(&port) {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    // ONLY bridge a port that a running app already answers on
+                    // over IPv4. Binding [::]:port for an app that isn't
+                    // installed is actively harmful: it makes that app's
+                    // later install hit "address already in use", and the
+                    // install's port-free step (`fuser -k <port>/tcp`) then
+                    // kills THIS daemon, which holds the port — the exact
+                    // cause of installs failing + apps vanishing on
+                    // framework-pt 2026-07-27. No v4 listener → skip; the
+                    // next rescan picks it up once the app is up.
+                    let v4_up = tokio::time::timeout(
+                        std::time::Duration::from_millis(300),
+                        tokio::net::TcpStream::connect(("127.0.0.1", port)),
+                    )
+                    .await
+                    .ok()
+                    .and_then(|r| r.ok())
+                    .is_some();
+                    if !v4_up {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    let addr = SocketAddr::new(
+                        std::net::IpAddr::V6(std::net::Ipv6Addr::UNSPECIFIED),
+                        port,
+                    );
+                    // EADDRINUSE = the app itself already answers on v6 —
+                    // exactly when we must stay out of the way.
+                    let Ok(listener) = bind_v6_only(addr) else { continue };
+                    bridged.insert(port);
+                    debug!("v6 relay bridging [::]:{port} -> 127.0.0.1:{port}");
+                    let mut rx = shutdown_rx.clone();
+                    tokio::spawn(async move {
+                        loop {
+                            tokio::select! {
+                                accepted = listener.accept() => {
+                                    let Ok((mut inbound, _)) = accepted else { break };
+                                    tokio::spawn(async move {
+                                        let Ok(mut outbound) = tokio::net::TcpStream::connect(
+                                            ("127.0.0.1", port),
+                                        )
+                                        .await else { return };
+                                        let _ = tokio::io::copy_bidirectional(
+                                            &mut inbound,
+                                            &mut outbound,
+                                        )
+                                        .await;
+                                    });
+                                }
+                                _ = rx.changed() => break,
+                            }
+                        }
+                    });
+                }
+            }
+            _ = shutdown_rx.changed() => return,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /// Poll every 30s for `fips0`'s ULA; when it appears, bind the peer
 /// listener and run the normal accept loop. If the bind fails (port
 /// already taken, permissions), log and keep retrying. Returns on

core/archipelago/src/update.rs

@@ -1868,13 +1868,38 @@ pub async fn apply_update(data_dir: &Path) -> Result<()> {
     // UI before systemd kills us. --no-block makes sure systemctl doesn't
     // try to wait for the current service (us) to exit cleanly before
     // starting the new process — it would deadlock otherwise.
-    tokio::spawn(async {
-        tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(2)).await;
-        // systemctl talks to PID 1 over D-Bus — doesn't need the host
-        // mount namespace, but routing through host_sudo keeps the
-        // apply flow's sudo calls uniform.
-        let _ = host_sudo(&["systemctl", "--no-block", "restart", "archipelago"]).await;
-    });
+    // PID1-owned timer transient: submit NOW (synchronously, while we are
+    // definitely alive), fire in 2s from systemd itself. The old approach —
+    // tokio sleep + `systemd-run --wait -- systemctl --no-block restart` —
+    // ran as a child of the process being stopped; on v1.7.114->115 the
+    // stop landed but the start never fired and the node sat dead all
+    // night. A timer unit owned by PID1 cannot be killed by our own death,
+    // and Restart=always on the unit is the second net.
+    let submitted = tokio::process::Command::new("sudo")
+        .args([
+            "systemd-run",
+            "--collect",
+            "--on-active=2",
+            "--timer-property=AccuracySec=100ms",
+            "--",
+            "systemctl",
+            "restart",
+            "archipelago",
+        ])
+        .status()
+        .await;
+    match submitted {
+        Ok(st) if st.success() => {}
+        other => {
+            tracing::warn!(
+                "detached restart submission failed ({other:?}) — falling back to in-process restart"
+            );
+            tokio::spawn(async {
+                tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(2)).await;
+                let _ = host_sudo(&["systemctl", "--no-block", "restart", "archipelago"]).await;
+            });
+        }
+    }
 
     Ok(())
 }

docs/UNIFIED-TASK-TRACKER.md

@@ -15,6 +15,26 @@ those are marked ✅ below with the commit that did it, so we stop re-litigating
 
 ## Tier 0 — Quick / mechanical, no blockers
 
+- [ ] **Ship the lightning payment false-failure fix in the next release** (fixed
+      on main 2026-07-27, needs OTA). Slow multi-hop payments (>15s) surfaced as
+      "Payment failed" while LND settled them in the background — the shared LND
+      REST client's 15s timeout aborted the synchronous `/v1/channels/transactions`
+      wait. Now: payinvoice decodes the invoice first for its payment hash, waits
+      up to 120s on a dedicated client, returns `status: "pending"` (never a
+      failure) on timeout, and the new `lnd.paymentstatus` RPC + frontend
+      `payLightningInvoice()` helper poll to a real terminal state (all 5 UI call
+      sites migrated). Verify on Framework PT with a real multi-hop payment.
+- [ ] **Show the app version on the companion mobile-app banner in the app store
+      and on its install/pairing modal** (user request 2026-07-27) — so it's
+      obvious at a glance whether the node is serving the latest APK build.
+- [ ] **Optimise the companion QR scan — quicker + better** (user request
+      2026-07-27; deferred to a later session on purpose). The pairing/scan QR
+      flow works (user-verified on-device 2026-07-27) but should get faster and
+      smoother: quicker camera start + decode (scan resolution/framerate,
+      continuous autofocus), more forgiving in low light / at an angle, and
+      snappier feedback once the code locks. Touch the native-scan path from
+      PR #104 and the in-app scan modal together so both benefit.
+
 - [ ] **Update `tests/lifecycle/TESTING.md`'s stale Release Gates checklist** (lines
       289–296) — several boxes are unchecked but actually true now:
   - #1 bitcoin-stops: covered by `tests/lifecycle/bats/bitcoin-knots.bats` stop/restart

image-recipe/configs/archipelago.service

@@ -31,7 +31,13 @@ ExecStartPre=+/bin/bash -c 'mkdir -p /var/lib/archipelago && chown archipelago:a
 # "-" so a missing/failed guard can never block the service itself.
 ExecStartPre=+-/opt/archipelago/scripts/ota-crash-guard.sh
 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/archipelago
-Restart=on-failure
+# always (not on-failure): the OTA restart path once stopped the daemon
+# cleanly and the queued start never fired (framework-pt, v1.7.114->115,
+# 2026-07-26) — the node sat dead all night behind "server starting up".
+# Restart=always self-heals any lost start job; an explicit
+# `systemctl stop` is still honored (systemd never auto-restarts after
+# a manual stop).
+Restart=always
 RestartSec=5
 WatchdogSec=300
 TimeoutStartSec=300

neode-ui/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "neode-ui",
-  "version": "1.7.114-alpha",
+  "version": "1.7.115-alpha",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "neode-ui",
-      "version": "1.7.114-alpha",
+      "version": "1.7.115-alpha",
       "dependencies": {
         "@scure/bip39": "^2.2.0",
         "@types/dompurify": "^3.0.5",
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-CGOfOJqWjg2qW/Mb6zNsDm+u5vFQ8DxXfbM09z69p5Z6+mE1ikP2jUXw+j42Pf1XTYED2Rni5f95npYeuwMDQA==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "@babel/code-frame": "^7.29.0",
         "@babel/generator": "^7.29.0",
@@ -1811,6 +1812,7 @@
         }
       ],
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "engines": {
         "node": ">=18"
       },
@@ -1834,6 +1836,7 @@
         }
       ],
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "engines": {
         "node": ">=18"
       }
@@ -3920,6 +3923,7 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-TbAd9DaPGSnzp6QvtYngntMZgcRk+igFELwR2N99XZn7RXUdKgsXMR+28bUO0rPsWp8MIu/f47luLIQuSLYv/w==",
       "devOptional": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "@types/geojson": "*"
       }
@@ -3969,6 +3973,7 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-MCbrb508JZHqe7bUibmZj/lyojdhLRnfkmyXnkrCM2zVrjTgL89U8UEfInpKTvPeTnxsw2hmyZxnhsdNR6yhwg==",
       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "cac": "^6.7.14",
         "colorette": "^2.0.20",
@@ -4469,6 +4474,7 @@
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+      "peer": true,
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+      "peer": true,
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       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "bin": {
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       }
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+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
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         "data-urls": "^5.0.0",
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-      "license": "BSD-2-Clause"
+      "license": "BSD-2-Clause",
+      "peer": true
     },
     "node_modules/leven": {
       "version": "3.1.0",
@@ -9071,6 +9082,7 @@
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       ],
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
         "nanoid": "^3.3.11",
         "picocolors": "^1.1.1",
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+      "peer": true,
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       "dev": true,
       "license": "MIT",
+      "peer": true,
       "engines": {
         "node": ">=12"
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       "devOptional": true,
       "license": "Apache-2.0",
+      "peer": true,
       "bin": {
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         "tsserver": "bin/tsserver"
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       "dev": true,
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+      "peer": true,
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+      "peer": true,
       "dependencies": {
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neode-ui/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "neode-ui",
   "private": true,
-  "version": "1.7.114-alpha",
+  "version": "1.7.116-alpha",
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
     "start": "./start-dev.sh",

neode-ui/src/api/rpc-client.ts

@@ -400,6 +400,76 @@ class RPCClient {
     })
   }
 
+  /** Pay a Lightning invoice and resolve it to a REAL terminal state.
+   *
+   * The backend waits up to 120s on LND's synchronous pay endpoint; if the
+   * payment is still routing after that it answers `status: "pending"` with
+   * the payment hash instead of an error. This helper then polls
+   * lnd.paymentstatus until LND itself reports succeeded/failed, so callers
+   * never show "failed" for a payment that is merely slow — the bug where a
+   * settling payment was declared failed and then appeared in history a
+   * minute later. Returns `pending` only if the payment is STILL in flight
+   * after the polling window (rare; caller should say "still settling",
+   * not "failed"). */
+  async payLightningInvoice(params: {
+    payment_request: string
+    amount_sats?: number
+  }): Promise<{
+    status: 'succeeded' | 'failed' | 'pending'
+    payment_hash: string
+    amount_sats: number
+    failure_reason?: string
+  }> {
+    const res = await this.call<{
+      status?: string
+      payment_hash?: string
+      amount_sats?: number
+    }>({
+      method: 'lnd.payinvoice',
+      params,
+      // Above the backend's 120s wait so the backend always answers first.
+      timeout: 130000,
+    })
+
+    const hash = res.payment_hash || ''
+    const amount = res.amount_sats || 0
+    // Older backends have no status field — a plain response was a success.
+    if (res.status !== 'pending') {
+      return { status: 'succeeded', payment_hash: hash, amount_sats: amount }
+    }
+    if (!hash) return { status: 'pending', payment_hash: '', amount_sats: amount }
+
+    // Poll to a terminal state: every 3s for up to 2 minutes.
+    for (let i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
+      await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 3000))
+      try {
+        const st = await this.call<{
+          status: string
+          failure_reason?: string
+          amount_sats?: number
+        }>({
+          method: 'lnd.paymentstatus',
+          params: { payment_hash: hash },
+          timeout: 15000,
+        })
+        if (st.status === 'succeeded') {
+          return { status: 'succeeded', payment_hash: hash, amount_sats: st.amount_sats || amount }
+        }
+        if (st.status === 'failed') {
+          return {
+            status: 'failed',
+            payment_hash: hash,
+            amount_sats: amount,
+            failure_reason: st.failure_reason || 'Payment failed',
+          }
+        }
+      } catch {
+        // Transient poll error — keep trying; only LND decides failure.
+      }
+    }
+    return { status: 'pending', payment_hash: hash, amount_sats: amount }
+  }
+
   async publishNostrIdentity(): Promise<{ event_id: string; success: number; failed: number }> {
     return this.call({
       method: 'node.nostr-publish',

neode-ui/src/components/AppLauncherOverlay.vue

@@ -525,10 +525,10 @@ async function approvePayment() {
       receipt = { method: 'ecash', token: res.token, amount_sats: res.amount_sats }
     } else if (method === 'lightning') {
       if (pay.invoice) {
-        const res = await rpcClient.call<{ payment_hash: string; amount_sats: number }>({
-          method: 'lnd.payinvoice',
-          params: { payment_request: pay.invoice },
-        })
+        // Tracked to a real terminal state — slow routing is not a failure.
+        const res = await rpcClient.payLightningInvoice({ payment_request: pay.invoice })
+        if (res.status === 'failed') throw new Error(res.failure_reason || 'Payment failed')
+        if (res.status === 'pending') throw new Error('Payment is still settling — check your wallet transactions before retrying.')
         receipt = { method: 'lightning', payment_hash: res.payment_hash, amount_sats: res.amount_sats }
       } else {
         // Create and immediately return an invoice for the requester to display

neode-ui/src/components/SendBitcoinModal.vue

@@ -620,11 +620,21 @@ async function send() {
       ecashToken.value = res.token
     } else if (method === 'lightning') {
       if (!dest.value.trim()) { error.value = t('web5.pasteInvoice'); return }
-      const res = await rpcClient.call<{ payment_hash: string }>({
-        method: 'lnd.payinvoice',
-        params: { payment_request: dest.value.trim() },
-      })
-      successInfo.value = { amount: paidAmount, methodLabel: 'Paid over Lightning', hash: res.payment_hash }
+      // Waits out slow multi-hop routing and only reports failure when LND
+      // itself declares the payment failed — never on a timeout.
+      const res = await rpcClient.payLightningInvoice({ payment_request: dest.value.trim() })
+      if (res.status === 'failed') {
+        error.value = res.failure_reason || t('web5.sendFailed')
+        return
+      }
+      successInfo.value = {
+        amount: paidAmount,
+        methodLabel: res.status === 'pending' ? 'Payment in flight' : 'Paid over Lightning',
+        hash: res.payment_hash || undefined,
+        ...(res.status === 'pending'
+          ? { note: 'This payment is taking longer than usual to settle. It will appear in your transactions once it completes.' }
+          : {}),
+      }
     } else {
       if (!dest.value.trim()) { error.value = t('web5.enterBitcoinAddress'); return }
       const res = await rpcClient.call<{ txid: string }>({

neode-ui/src/components/WalletScanModal.vue

@@ -701,16 +701,17 @@ async function confirmSend() {
   error.value = ''
   try {
     if (action.value === 'pay-invoice') {
-      const params: Record<string, unknown> = { payment_request: dest.value }
+      const params: { payment_request: string; amount_sats?: number } = { payment_request: dest.value }
       if (!amountLocked.value && effectiveAmount.value > 0) params.amount_sats = effectiveAmount.value
-      const res = await rpcClient.call<{ payment_hash: string; amount_sats: number }>({
-        method: 'lnd.payinvoice',
-        params,
-        timeout: 60000,
-      })
+      // Waits out slow multi-hop routing and only reports failure when LND
+      // itself declares the payment failed — never on a timeout.
+      const res = await rpcClient.payLightningInvoice(params)
+      if (res.status === 'failed') throw new Error(res.failure_reason || 'Payment failed')
       successAmount.value = res.amount_sats || effectiveAmount.value
-      successVerb.value = 'PAID'
-      successDetail.value = 'Lightning invoice paid'
+      successVerb.value = res.status === 'pending' ? 'SENDING' : 'PAID'
+      successDetail.value = res.status === 'pending'
+        ? 'Payment in flight — it will appear in your transactions once it settles'
+        : 'Lightning invoice paid'
       successRef.value = res.payment_hash
     } else if (action.value === 'send-onchain') {
       const res = await rpcClient.call<{ txid: string }>({

neode-ui/src/views/PeerFiles.vue

@@ -1320,8 +1320,8 @@ async function payWithInvoice() {
 
 /**
  * Pay the seller's invoice straight from THIS node's Lightning wallet, then
- * release the file. No QR/polling: lnd.payinvoice only returns once the payment
- * settles, so the payment_hash is immediately valid as the download gate token.
+ * release the file. payLightningInvoice resolves to a real terminal state, so
+ * on success the payment_hash is immediately valid as the download gate token.
  */
 async function payWithLightning() {
   const item = payItem.value
@@ -1341,14 +1341,15 @@ async function payWithLightning() {
       lnError.value = inv?.error || 'The seller could not create an invoice (is its Lightning node running?).'
       return
     }
-    // 2. Pay it from our own node. Returns only after settlement.
-    const pay = await rpcClient.call<{ payment_hash?: string; payment_error?: string }>({
-      method: 'lnd.payinvoice',
-      params: { payment_request: inv.bolt11 },
-      timeout: 120000,
-    })
-    if (pay?.payment_error) {
-      lnError.value = `Payment failed: ${pay.payment_error}`
+    // 2. Pay it from our own node. Tracked to a REAL terminal state — a slow
+    // multi-hop route resolves via status polling instead of a false failure.
+    const pay = await rpcClient.payLightningInvoice({ payment_request: inv.bolt11 })
+    if (pay.status === 'failed') {
+      lnError.value = `Payment failed: ${pay.failure_reason || 'unknown reason'}`
+      return
+    }
+    if (pay.status === 'pending') {
+      lnError.value = 'Payment is still settling — this can take a few minutes. Check your wallet transactions before paying again.'
       return
     }
     // 3. Settled — pull the file using the payment hash as the gate token.

neode-ui/src/views/dashboard/DashboardMobileNav.vue

@@ -208,6 +208,11 @@ function onResize() {
   updateTabBarHeight()
 }
 
+function onInsetsInjected() {
+  readSafeAreaTop()
+  updateTabBarHeight()
+}
+
 onMounted(() => {
   updateTabBarHeight()
   // Re-measure after the first paint: on mount the bar may not have its final
@@ -216,13 +221,21 @@ onMounted(() => {
   requestAnimationFrame(updateTabBarHeight)
   readSafeAreaTop()
   window.addEventListener('resize', onResize)
-  // Re-read after WebView injection has had time to run. The injected
-  // safe-area-bottom padding changes the bar's height, so re-measure too.
-  setTimeout(() => { readSafeAreaTop(); updateTabBarHeight() }, 500)
+  // The Android WebView injects --safe-area-top asynchronously and fires this
+  // event when it lands. An authenticated session mounts the dashboard BEFORE
+  // the injection (fresh installs mount after login, long after it), so a
+  // one-shot read here bakes in 0 and content slides under the growing fixed
+  // tab bar — the update-install-only overlap bug.
+  window.addEventListener('archy-insets', onInsetsInjected)
+  // Fallback retry ladder for APKs that predate the event.
+  for (const delay of [500, 1500, 3000, 6000]) {
+    setTimeout(onInsetsInjected, delay)
+  }
 })
 
 onBeforeUnmount(() => {
   window.removeEventListener('resize', onResize)
+  window.removeEventListener('archy-insets', onInsetsInjected)
 })
 
 // Re-measure on route changes

neode-ui/src/views/settings/AccountInfoSection.vue

@@ -362,6 +362,30 @@ init()
               </button>
             </div>
             <div class="overflow-y-auto flex-1 min-h-0 space-y-6 pr-1">
+              <!-- v1.7.116-alpha -->
+              <div>
+                <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3">
+                  <span class="text-xs font-mono px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-orange-500/20 text-orange-300">v1.7.116-alpha</span>
+                  <span class="text-xs text-white/40">July 27, 2026</span>
+                </div>
+                <div class="space-y-3 text-sm text-white/80 pl-3 border-l border-white/10">
+                  <p>Nodes no longer get stuck on "server starting up" after an update or reboot. The backend now reports ready immediately and recovers its apps in the background, and it always restarts itself if it ever goes down — the days-long "server starting up" hang is gone.</p>
+                  <p>Installing apps no longer crashes the node. A recent change that made app screens reachable over the mesh was holding onto every app's port in advance, so installing an app collided with it and the port-cleanup took the backend down and rolled the install back. Installs are clean now.</p>
+                  <p>Rolls up v1.7.115: app screens and the dashboard load over the mesh out of the box, with IPv6 support end to end, and nodes rejoin the mesh in seconds after their rendezvous point restarts.</p>
+                </div>
+              </div>
+              <!-- v1.7.115-alpha -->
+              <div>
+                <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3">
+                  <span class="text-xs font-mono px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-orange-500/20 text-orange-300">v1.7.115-alpha</span>
+                  <span class="text-xs text-white/40">July 26, 2026</span>
+                </div>
+                <div class="space-y-3 text-sm text-white/80 pl-3 border-l border-white/10">
+                  <p>The companion app can reach your node's screen from anywhere again. The recent security hardening locked down the node's mesh interface so tightly that the dashboard itself was blocked — the phone would pair and connect, then sit on a blank screen. The node now explicitly opens its own web interface (and only that) through the mesh firewall on every install and upgrade, so the phone's view of your node works out of the box, on any network, and can't silently break in a future update.</p>
+                  <p>The node's web interface also answers on IPv6 everywhere it answers on IPv4 — the mesh runs entirely on IPv6, and one v4-only listener was enough to make a working connection show nothing.</p>
+                  <p>Nodes now come back onto the mesh in seconds instead of minutes after their rendezvous anchor restarts: the fast-reconnect tuning proven on the phone this week is now baked into every node's mesh configuration, and it survives upgrades.</p>
+                </div>
+              </div>
               <!-- v1.7.114-alpha -->
               <div>
                 <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-3">

neode-ui/src/views/web5/Web5SendReceiveModals.vue

@@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ async function unifiedSend() {
         unifiedSendError.value = t('web5.pasteInvoice')
         return
       }
-      const res = await rpcClient.call<{ payment_hash: string; amount_sats: number }>({
-        method: 'lnd.payinvoice',
-        params: { payment_request: unifiedSendDest.value.trim() },
-      })
+      // Waits out slow multi-hop routing and only reports failure when LND
+      // itself declares the payment failed — never on a timeout.
+      const res = await rpcClient.payLightningInvoice({ payment_request: unifiedSendDest.value.trim() })
+      if (res.status === 'failed') throw new Error(res.failure_reason || 'Payment failed')
       sendResultHash.value = res.payment_hash
     } else {
       if (!unifiedSendDest.value.trim()) {

release-manifest.json

@@ -1,31 +1,29 @@
 {
   "changelog": [
-    "Plugging in a mesh radio no longer traps it in an endless reboot loop. The device detector itself was causing it: every scan pulsed the radio's reset line, the same board was probed twice under two names, and retries came so fast the radio never finished booting before the next reset hit. Detection now gives the board real time to boot, probes it once, backs off properly between attempts, and no longer fights the \"device detected\" popup for the port. Radios that could never connect now come up within a minute of being plugged in.",
-    "The Lightning channels screen now has All / Active / Pending / Closed tabs. Pending gathers everything in motion (opening, closing, force-closing — each with its own status dot and a link to the closing transaction), and Closed is a real history: how each channel ended, what settled back to you, and the closing transaction for each.",
-    "Sending bitcoin on-chain now puts you in charge of the network fee: pick Fast, Standard, or Slow (Standard is the default), or set your own target blocks or sats-per-vByte. The confirmation step shows the estimated fee for your chosen speed before any money moves.",
-    "Type on-chain amounts in whichever unit you think in — a sats/BTC switch on the amount field converts as you type.",
-    "Back up your seed by scanning it. Every recovery-phrase screen (onboarding, Settings, and the Lightning wallet seed) now has Words and QR code tabs — words always shown first. The QR for your node's recovery phrase uses the SeedQR standard, so hardware wallets like Passport Prime, SeedSigner, and Keystone can import it with a single scan (a plain-text option remains for wallets that read the phrase as text). The Lightning seed's QR is plain text with an honest note: it's an LND-format seed that restores into Lightning wallets like Zeus or Blixt, not into hardware wallets."
+    "Nodes no longer get stuck on \"server starting up\" after an update or reboot. On a node running many apps, the backend used to spend minutes recovering containers before it told the system it was ready, and anything that touched it during that window could leave it down for good. It now reports ready immediately and recovers in the background, and it always restarts itself if it ever does go down.",
+    "Installing apps no longer crashes the node. A change that made app screens reachable over the mesh was accidentally holding onto every app's network port in advance — so installing an app like Grafana, Photoprism, Uptime Kuma, or Jellyfin collided with it and the port-cleanup step took the whole backend down, rolling the install back. Installs are now clean and the backend can never be caught by that cleanup.",
+    "Rolls up everything from v1.7.115: app screens and the dashboard load over the mesh out of the box (firewall openings shipped automatically, IPv6 support end to end), and nodes rejoin the mesh in seconds after their rendezvous point restarts."
   ],
   "components": [
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-      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.114-alpha/archipelago",
+      "current_version": "1.7.116-alpha",
+      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.116-alpha/archipelago",
       "name": "archipelago",
-      "new_version": "1.7.114-alpha",
-      "sha256": "524039b6517c6e506f2d7933051349310704f3babd490d8125ced9ba24a0b0fc",
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+      "new_version": "1.7.116-alpha",
+      "sha256": "376cde3ff9691c7141e67b1b87e746634c45a20167c578938c4a33801eefe46e",
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-      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.114-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.7.114-alpha.tar.gz",
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+      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.116-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.7.116-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.7.116-alpha.tar.gz",
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+  "signature": "455e0ce176a0f8c9adf3bbfd7bf949739ad0e5e23c40af9ed6c89b367a42f5d52dbfe97f5ef53f838f3cd17122087b2081c1e5549065504f1f9ea101c8ffc30e",
   "signed_by": "did:key:z6MkkidEnEpo6qHMCNSZoNKWtvQvxq3whnaME9wGgEFhq7ur",
-  "version": "1.7.114-alpha"
+  "version": "1.7.116-alpha"
 }

releases/manifest.json

@@ -1,31 +1,29 @@
 {
   "changelog": [
-    "Plugging in a mesh radio no longer traps it in an endless reboot loop. The device detector itself was causing it: every scan pulsed the radio's reset line, the same board was probed twice under two names, and retries came so fast the radio never finished booting before the next reset hit. Detection now gives the board real time to boot, probes it once, backs off properly between attempts, and no longer fights the \"device detected\" popup for the port. Radios that could never connect now come up within a minute of being plugged in.",
-    "The Lightning channels screen now has All / Active / Pending / Closed tabs. Pending gathers everything in motion (opening, closing, force-closing — each with its own status dot and a link to the closing transaction), and Closed is a real history: how each channel ended, what settled back to you, and the closing transaction for each.",
-    "Sending bitcoin on-chain now puts you in charge of the network fee: pick Fast, Standard, or Slow (Standard is the default), or set your own target blocks or sats-per-vByte. The confirmation step shows the estimated fee for your chosen speed before any money moves.",
-    "Type on-chain amounts in whichever unit you think in — a sats/BTC switch on the amount field converts as you type.",
-    "Back up your seed by scanning it. Every recovery-phrase screen (onboarding, Settings, and the Lightning wallet seed) now has Words and QR code tabs — words always shown first. The QR for your node's recovery phrase uses the SeedQR standard, so hardware wallets like Passport Prime, SeedSigner, and Keystone can import it with a single scan (a plain-text option remains for wallets that read the phrase as text). The Lightning seed's QR is plain text with an honest note: it's an LND-format seed that restores into Lightning wallets like Zeus or Blixt, not into hardware wallets."
+    "Nodes no longer get stuck on \"server starting up\" after an update or reboot. On a node running many apps, the backend used to spend minutes recovering containers before it told the system it was ready, and anything that touched it during that window could leave it down for good. It now reports ready immediately and recovers in the background, and it always restarts itself if it ever does go down.",
+    "Installing apps no longer crashes the node. A change that made app screens reachable over the mesh was accidentally holding onto every app's network port in advance — so installing an app like Grafana, Photoprism, Uptime Kuma, or Jellyfin collided with it and the port-cleanup step took the whole backend down, rolling the install back. Installs are now clean and the backend can never be caught by that cleanup.",
+    "Rolls up everything from v1.7.115: app screens and the dashboard load over the mesh out of the box (firewall openings shipped automatically, IPv6 support end to end), and nodes rejoin the mesh in seconds after their rendezvous point restarts."
   ],
   "components": [
     {
-      "current_version": "1.7.114-alpha",
-      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.114-alpha/archipelago",
+      "current_version": "1.7.116-alpha",
+      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.116-alpha/archipelago",
       "name": "archipelago",
-      "new_version": "1.7.114-alpha",
-      "sha256": "524039b6517c6e506f2d7933051349310704f3babd490d8125ced9ba24a0b0fc",
-      "size_bytes": 51705848
+      "new_version": "1.7.116-alpha",
+      "sha256": "376cde3ff9691c7141e67b1b87e746634c45a20167c578938c4a33801eefe46e",
+      "size_bytes": 51787208
     },
     {
-      "current_version": "1.7.114-alpha",
-      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.114-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.7.114-alpha.tar.gz",
-      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.7.114-alpha.tar.gz",
-      "new_version": "1.7.114-alpha",
-      "sha256": "fc48209cdf18eaf935e589b2779c46f392e925c93c56ccd085437509c13d65fd",
-      "size_bytes": 177972573
+      "current_version": "1.7.116-alpha",
+      "download_url": "http://146.59.87.168:3000/lfg2025/archy/releases/download/v1.7.116-alpha/archipelago-frontend-1.7.116-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "name": "archipelago-frontend-1.7.116-alpha.tar.gz",
+      "new_version": "1.7.116-alpha",
+      "sha256": "7008f26d16c7b7d5dacc8edf55bd30b58c02602d3419359516bbf2497591db58",
+      "size_bytes": 178062490
     }
   ],
-  "release_date": "2026-07-26",
-  "signature": "25ca2cf334da4454cc0ad04165d8fc683a81527a33286bd7253c34a965a791204467fd7e9dba2e6e749469bce699867f7f99fea22d3278d88621ff6aa04ed109",
+  "release_date": "2026-07-27",
+  "signature": "455e0ce176a0f8c9adf3bbfd7bf949739ad0e5e23c40af9ed6c89b367a42f5d52dbfe97f5ef53f838f3cd17122087b2081c1e5549065504f1f9ea101c8ffc30e",
   "signed_by": "did:key:z6MkkidEnEpo6qHMCNSZoNKWtvQvxq3whnaME9wGgEFhq7ur",
-  "version": "1.7.114-alpha"
+  "version": "1.7.116-alpha"
 }

scripts/create-release-manifest.sh

@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ if [ -z "$FRONTEND_ARCHIVE" ]; then
         # SIGPIPE-safe: use awk to read only the first line and exit,
         # then terminate the tar pipeline explicitly so `pipefail`+SIGPIPE
         # don't kill the whole `set -euo pipefail` script.
-        root_mode=$(tar tvzf "$FRONTEND_ARCHIVE" 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR==1{print $1; exit}')
+        root_mode=$({ tar tvzf "$FRONTEND_ARCHIVE" 2>/dev/null || true; } | awk 'NR==1{print $1; exit}')
         case "$root_mode" in
             drwxr-xr-x|drwxr-x*x*)
                 echo "  Tarball root perms OK: $root_mode"

scripts/generate-app-catalog.py

@@ -141,6 +141,32 @@ def render_app_session_config(manifests: dict[str, dict[str, Any]]) -> str:
     return "\n".join(lines)
 
 
+def render_rust_ports(ports: dict[str, int], extra_ports: list[int]) -> str:
+    """Rust constant of catalog launch ports for the fips0 firewall drop-in
+    (core/archipelago/src/fips/app_ports.rs). Extra ports cover the frontend's
+    APP_PORTS overrides (companions/aliases) that have no manifest of their own.
+    """
+    distinct = sorted(set(list(ports.values()) + extra_ports))
+    lines = [
+        "//! Generated by scripts/generate-app-catalog.py. Do not edit manually.",
+        "//!",
+        "//! Catalog app launch ports (the web UIs the companion opens by direct",
+        "//! port). Used to write the fips0 firewall allowance drop-in so app UIs",
+        "//! are reachable over the mesh; ports of apps that aren\'t installed have",
+        "//! no listener, so allowing them is inert.",
+        "",
+        "pub const APP_LAUNCH_PORTS: &[u16] = &[",
+    ]
+    lines.extend(f"    {port}," for port in distinct)
+    lines.extend(["];", ""])
+    return "\n".join(lines)
+
+
+# Keep in lockstep with APP_PORTS overrides in
+# neode-ui/src/views/appSession/appSessionConfig.ts.
+RUST_EXTRA_PORTS = [8334, 50002, 18083, 11434, 8081, 8240, 8175, 8176, 8080]
+
+
 def sync_catalog(path: Path, manifests: dict[str, dict[str, Any]]) -> int:
     with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
         catalog = json.load(fh)
@@ -178,6 +204,11 @@ def main() -> int:
         default=[],
         help="Catalog JSON path to update. May be passed multiple times.",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--rust-app-ports",
+        default="core/archipelago/src/fips/app_ports.rs",
+        help="Generated Rust launch-port list for the fips0 firewall drop-in. Empty string to skip.",
+    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--app-session-config",
         default="neode-ui/src/views/appSession/generatedAppSessionConfig.ts",
@@ -201,6 +232,20 @@ def main() -> int:
             print(f"{path}: updated")
         else:
             print(f"{path}: updated 0 fields")
+    if args.rust_app_ports:
+        ports = {
+            app_id: port
+            for app_id, app in manifests.items()
+            if (port := manifest_launch_port(app))
+        }
+        rust_path = Path(args.rust_app_ports)
+        rust_content = render_rust_ports(ports, RUST_EXTRA_PORTS)
+        rust_old = rust_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8") if rust_path.exists() else ""
+        if rust_old != rust_content:
+            rust_path.write_text(rust_content, encoding="utf-8")
+            print(f"{rust_path}: updated")
+        else:
+            print(f"{rust_path}: updated 0 fields")
     print(f"total_updated={total}")
     return 0